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Excerpt from Sketches of the Horrors of War: Chiefly Selected From Labaume's Narrative of the Campaign in Russia, in 1812; Translated From the French, With Some Observations
Sept. Sth. Borodino -a redoubt on the left of the Russian position was taken by storm. This important position was purchased with the blood of One thousand of our men, more than one half of whom were left dead In the entrenchments they had so'gcriousiy carried. The next day the Emperor, passing in review the 61st' regiment which had snfiered the most, asked the colonel, what he had done With one of his battalions? Sire, ' replied it is in the redoubt. P. 181.
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