
Masters of War: Jean Lannes
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On 14 June 1807, at the river town of Friedland in East Prussia, Marshal Jean Lannes held the French left with twenty-six thousand men against a Russian army of nearly fifty thousand. He held it for eight hours. He held it with counter-attacks, with aggressive disruption of every Russian advance, with the sheer force of a commander who had decided that the position would not break. When Napoleon a...
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On 14 June 1807, at the river town of Friedland in East Prussia, Marshal Jean Lannes held the French left with twenty-six thousand men against a Russian army of nearly fifty thousand. He held it for eight hours. He held it with counter-attacks, with aggressive disruption of every Russian advance, with the sheer force of a commander who had decided that the position would not break. When Napoleon a...
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