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Title: From 1800 to 1900. The wonderful story of the century; its progress and achievements ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Morris, Charles, 1833-1922
Subjects: Nineteenth century
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., A.B. Kuhlman Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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net (led. On the following day Kutusoff was obliged to withdraw, leaving no less than 40,000 dead or wounded on the field Among the killed was the brave Prince Bagration. The retreat was an orderly one. Napoleon found it expedient not to pursue. His own losses aggregated over 30,000, among them an unusual number of generals, of whom ten were killed and thirty-nine wounded. Three days proved a brief time to attend to the burial of the dead and the needs of the wounded. Napoleon named the engagement the Battle of the Moskwa, from the rivet that crossed the plain, and honored Ney, as the hero of the day. with the title of lrince of Moskwa „, „ „. . On the 15th the Holv City was reached. A shout of The First Sight ,, of the Holy Moscow! Moscow! went up from the whole army as they Cityoif gazed on the gilded cupolas and magnificent buildings of that Russio . famous city, brilliantly lit up by the afternoon sun. Twenty. in circumference, dazzling with the green of its copper domes and
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