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《Six New Three Kingdoms-Style Takes on the Napoleonic Wars》

①Congratulations, Papa, you can now declare yourself Emperor.——Eugène-Rose de Beauharnais

②If I hear another bad word about Napoleon from your mouths, I'll gouge out my own ears!——Jean-Andoche Junot

③Look here, His Majesty praises me as the Lord of the Magnificent Beard. I'll copy the Emperor's letter fifty times! Let all the civil and military officials of the First Empire see it.——Joachim Murat

④Copy it yourself, and I'll help you post it after you finish.——Jean Baptiste Bessières

⑤Fine then! If he crosses the river, then I'll cross the river too. If he crosses the river to attack my Moscow, I'll cross the river and strike straight at his Paris in France.——Alexander I

⑥(Egypt) Attendant: Reporting to you, General, your wife has given birth to a child.

Impossible, my second brother is unmatched under heaven. I'm the only one who cuckolds others, how could I ever be cuckolded?——Jean Lannes

#my art #napoleonic wars #napoleonic era #New Romance of the Three Kingdoms #napoleon bonaparte #napoleon #Eugène-Rose de Beauharnais #Jean-Andoche Junot #Joachim Murat #Jean Baptiste Bessières #Alexander I #Kutuzov #jean lannes

Generals-heroes of the War of 1812 at the monument to Field Marshal Kutuzov, from left to right:

P.I. Bagration

M.B. Barclay-de-Tolly

M.I. Platov (behind Barclay and D.S. Dokhturov, looking through a telescope)

N.A. Tuchkov talks with N.N. Rayevsky

A.I. Kutaisov

A.P. Ermolov (with his head uncovered)

D.P. Neverovsky

P.G. Likhachev

P.P. Konovnitsyn

Moscow, March 22, 2026

#napoleonic era #history of russia #napoleonic wars #russian empire #war of 1812 #my idols 🛐#moscow #walking in moscow #kutuzov #🫡🤝💪🏻#I can look at them endlessly #even here Barclay holds his injured hand😭

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Kutuzov lost little time in tightening his line, and the cannon in the Great Redoubt continued, in the words of Armand de Caulaincourt, to ‘belch forth a veritable hell’ against the French centre, holding up any other major advance elsewhere. At 3 p.m. Eugène attacked the Redoubt with three infantry columns, and a cavalry charge managed to get into it from its rear, though at the cost of the lives of both Montbrun and Auguste de Caulaincourt, the grand equerry’s brother. ‘You have heard the news,’ Napoleon said to Caulaincourt when Auguste’s death was reported at headquarters, ‘do you wish to retire?’ Caulaincourt made no reply. He merely raised his hat in acknowledgement, with only the tears in his eyes signifying that he had heard it.

By 4 p.m. the Grande Armée had taken the field of battle. When Eugène, Murat and Ney repeated their request to release the Guard, this time its cavalry, Napoleon again refused. ‘I do not wish to see it destroyed,’ he told Rapp. ‘I am sure to gain the battle without it taking a part.’ By 5 p.m. Murat was still arguing for the Guard’s deployment but Bessières was now against it, pointing out that ‘Europe was between him and France’. At this point Berthier also changed his mind, adding that by then it was too late anyhow. Having withdrawn half a mile by 5 p.m., the Russians stopped and prepared to defend their positions, which an exhausted Grande Armée was ready to shell but unwilling to attack. Napoleon ordered the commander of the Guard artillery, General Jean Sorbier, to fire at the new Russian positions, saying: ‘Since they want it, let them have it!’ [Robert's Napoleon's Marshals]

Battle of Moskova (Battle of Borodino), Capture of the Redoubt