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  3. History of the Expedition to Russia, Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon, in the Year 1812
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
May 2012
Print publication year:
2012
First published in:
1825
Online ISBN:
9781139175784
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139175784
Subjects:
Social and Population History, Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Russian and East European History
Series:
Cambridge Library Collection - European History
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Book description

The French general and historian Philippe-Paul, Comte de Ségur (1780–1873) served as a member of Napoleon's personal staff during the Russian campaign. He had joined the cavalry in 1800 and had distinguished himself during earlier episodes of the European war; this led to him being chosen for several diplomatic missions. His two-volume account of the invasion of Russia, first published in French in 1824, has been through many editions and has been translated into many languages. It is both a military history and an eyewitness account. This English translation was first published in 1825 and remains immensely valuable to historians' understanding of Napoleon's ultimately disastrous Russian strategy. Volume 2 begins with Napoleon's arrival in Moscow on 14 September 1812. The remainder of the book charts the events of the army's retreat, details the conditions endured and the lives lost in the course of it.

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