Friday, 17 November 2017

Volume 2: Book 10 - Chapter 27

Characters Present:

Napoleon Bonaparte 

Location:

Valúevo, Borodíno, the Shevárdino Redoubt

Tolstoy discusses popular French histories which say that Napoleon rode around the battle all day, giving out orders that seemed genius and mad.

Tolstoy counters at the end of the chapter that this would have been impossible, as Napoleon was far, far away from the actual battle.

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