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March 25, 2022

All-Out War Against Napoleon – The Grand Manifesto of Alexander I

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Published 24 Mar 2022

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In the beginning of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, the Russian Tsar Alexander I was under pressure to rally his people. A month into the campaign he declared the The Patriotic War (Отечественная война) to fight back Napoleon — who was already having serious supply issues and a deteriorating logistics network.

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