Napoleon-Russian Campaign Essay
Report to the Czar of Russia
As written by: Chezlov Roenoff
As we received wind of Napoleon’s army heading toward our country. We were faced with a rather detrimental event. Should we decide to stay, the Frenchmen would certainly attack us en masse, and take our forces down with their huge numbers. Should we retreat, though, it would again be us with the losses, for Napoleon would most definitely take us out anyway. As we sat in a tent in Moscow, we devised a series of plans, threw them into the wind, and modified our strategy again and again. It wasn’t until late in the morning in the second week of July when we came up with our desperate plan. We decided it would be best if we retreated—not out of fear of loss, though. We believed this would be the right choice because it would aid us in winning the battle. Here is our logic: ‘As the rough winter is approaching, the French would have to keep themselves warm—if we should retreat, the......
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Approximate Word Count: 415
Approximate Pages: 2 (260 words per double-spaced page) |