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... defeated on the peninsula ; Junot by the English at Vimiero , and Dupont , who was obliged to surrender to a Spanish ... defeat of Jena . Certain reforms instituted in the Prussian government were to lead to the formation of a popular ...
... defeated on the peninsula ; Junot by the English at Vimiero , and Dupont , who was obliged to surrender to a Spanish ... defeat of Jena . Certain reforms instituted in the Prussian government were to lead to the formation of a popular ...
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... defeat , leaving him in a situation dangerously close to that of the Russians at Friedland . Yet cornered , Napoleon was at his most dangerous . He managed to turn the island into a strongpoint , with its bridge to the mainland ...
... defeat , leaving him in a situation dangerously close to that of the Russians at Friedland . Yet cornered , Napoleon was at his most dangerous . He managed to turn the island into a strongpoint , with its bridge to the mainland ...
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... defeated in the field he would have achieved nothing . When he reached Smolensk on August 17 Napoleon was convinced ... defeat which his own rashness had brought about at Austerlitz . However , sheer weight of public opinion obliged the ...
... defeated in the field he would have achieved nothing . When he reached Smolensk on August 17 Napoleon was convinced ... defeat which his own rashness had brought about at Austerlitz . However , sheer weight of public opinion obliged the ...
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