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It was 8:30 and I was ready to go, but Zora hadn't materialized from her part of the suite yet
My eyes closed as I leaned up against the wall by the door and reether To be truthful I hadn't really eaten ry to experience roaned in frustration I had four plus hours of dancing ahead of me and all I wanted to do was throife on the bed and discover everything there was to know about her
'Patience and time Time and patience'
I smiled, as I re since faded fronificance in being a part of the historic events that shaped history during the Napoleonic era
During the time of Napoleon, Emperor of France, Russia had been a world power and a threat to Napoleon's uncontested rule over all of Europe In direct response to that threat Napoleon had marshaled an army and invaded Russia
He'd destroyed the Russians first attempts to stop the invasion in brutal ainst the stronger and better disciplined French army They had retreated back into the vastness of Russia, only fighting light engage army left over from their earlier defeats
It had been a plan that had called for a lot of patience on the part of the Russians, as they saw their country burned and pillaged by the French They had even sacrificed Moscow to the French, as they let tio by
Then the time came for patience to be at an end The Russians with their continual retreat had lured Napoleon over a thousand miles into Russia The harsh Russian winter hit and the French were not prepared for it
Out of food and supplies Napoleon had no choice but to either retreat from Russia or starve to death in Moscow He chose to leave Russia His ar out on the march had no chance when the better winter conditioned Russian troops closed in for the kill
Napoleon lost his entire arain When he abdicated and went into exile the first tiely because the Russian Cossack Calvary were pressing their way into France fro in froeance of the Russian Cossacks would be if they gained control of Paris was an unconscionable thought for any French Napoleon Napoleon had burned Moscow and in retribution it was clear that Paris would receive the same treatment at the hands of the Russians
It was 8:30 and I was ready to go, but Zora hadn't materialized from her part of the suite yet
My eyes closed as I leaned up against the wall by the door and reether To be truthful I hadn't really eaten ry to experience roaned in frustration I had four plus hours of dancing ahead of me and all I wanted to do was throife on the bed and discover everything there was to know about her
'Patience and time Time and patience'
I smiled, as I re since faded fronificance in being a part of the historic events that shaped history during the Napoleonic era
During the time of Napoleon, Emperor of France, Russia had been a world power and a threat to Napoleon's uncontested rule over all of Europe In direct response to that threat Napoleon had marshaled an army and invaded Russia
He'd destroyed the Russians first attempts to stop the invasion in brutal ainst the stronger and better disciplined French army They had retreated back into the vastness of Russia, only fighting light engage army left over from their earlier defeats
It had been a plan that had called for a lot of patience on the part of the Russians, as they saw their country burned and pillaged by the French They had even sacrificed Moscow to the French, as they let tio by
Then the time came for patience to be at an end The Russians with their continual retreat had lured Napoleon over a thousand miles into Russia The harsh Russian winter hit and the French were not prepared for it
Out of food and supplies Napoleon had no choice but to either retreat from Russia or starve to death in Moscow He chose to leave Russia His ar out on the march had no chance when the better winter conditioned Russian troops closed in for the kill
Napoleon lost his entire arain When he abdicated and went into exile the first tiely because the Russian Cossack Calvary were pressing their way into France fro in froeance of the Russian Cossacks would be if they gained control of Paris was an unconscionable thought for any French Napoleon Napoleon had burned Moscow and in retribution it was clear that Paris would receive the same treatment at the hands of the Russians