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Famous victory It’s 382 years today since the Battle of Breitenfeld: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gustave_Adolphe_at_Breitenfeld-Johann_Walter-f3706497.jpg It’s 201 years today since the Battle of Borodino: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_of_Borodino_1812.png There were probably 120,000 casualties at the two battles. The commemorative inscription at Breitenfeld says: Glaubensfreiheit für die Welt, rettete bei Breitenfeld – Gustav Adolf, Christ und Held. Am 7. September 1631 [Freedom of Belief for the World, salvaged at Breitenfeld, Gustavus Adolphus, Christian and Hero. 7 September 1631]. Tolstoy called Borodino ‘a continuous slaughter which could be of no avail either to the French or the Russians.’ If – mutatis mutandis – the two descriptions were reversed….?
Posted on: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 07:21:06 +0000

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