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Karpeles Document: Napoleonic Wars - The Battle for Moscow

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Karpeles Document: Napoleonic Wars - The Battle for Moscow

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In 1815, recorded on several diary pages, Napoleon reflects on the war in Russia as ‘the most destructive and dreadful that ever he had witnessed.”

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Courtesy of the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum

The Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, the world’s largest private collection of important original documents and manuscripts, provided this document.

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