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Talk:Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March

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This march didn't end with just one battle in Moscow. Out of starting number of troops of 422,000, there were only 100,000 left when they reached Moscow, and there were that many that left Moscow (and only 4,000 left getting back to France after marching back acrosss Eastern Europe in bitter cold conditions well below freezing (reaching 30 below zero Celsius!) (with those 4000 joining up with a remaining 6000 that had been part of a separation of 10,000 very early in the campaign. so this article needs to be revised in a major way, but by someone who knows uch more about this than I (I was just looking at the graph done by Minard (Google Image "napoleon march minard" and you should get several copies). (Prosandcons (talk) 21:39, 23 August 2008 (UTC))[reply]