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Borodino

noun
1.
Napoleon defeated the Russians in 1812 in a pitched battle at a village in western Russia west of Moscow, but irreparably weakened his army.





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"Borodino" Quotes from Famous Books



... his duty to the country by depositing his ballot in the box; that he may have to make the result sure by putting everything he values in the world at stake. The poor negroes in South Carolina have not been deposed simply because they are ignorant; the Russian peasants who fought at Borodino were grossly ignorant. How many of the English hinds who stood rooted in the soil at Waterloo could read and write? The Carolinian majority failed because it did not contain men willing to fight, or leaders capable of organization for military purposes, or, in other words, did not possess what has ...
— Reflections and Comments 1865-1895 • Edwin Lawrence Godkin
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... that neither I nor the regiment of Hussars of Conflans were at Moscow. We were left behind on the lines of communication at Borodino. How the Emperor could have advanced without us is incomprehensible to me, and, indeed, it was only then that I understood that his judgment was weakening and that he was no longer the man that he had been. However, a soldier has to obey orders, and so I remained at this village, which was poisoned ...
— The Adventures of Gerard • Arthur Conan Doyle
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Words linked to "Borodino" :   pitched battle, Soviet Russia, Russia, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, Napoleonic Wars


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