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Borodino

noun
1.
Napoleon defeated the Russians in 1812 in a pitched battle at a village in western Russia west of Moscow, but irreparably weakened his army.





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... King of Terrors as he was there. The thought that thousands and thousands of human beings, some of them tender-hearted, have had to face him there is more horrifying than the thought of French soldiers freezing in their blood on the Borodino, or of Inquisitional tortures. It is one of those thoughts which ought not to be thought—a thought to be suppressed, for it leads to atheism, or even something worse than mere denial of a God. Thank Heaven that the present generation ...
— The Revolution in Tanner's Lane • Mark Rutherford


Words linked to "Borodino" :   Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, Russia, Soviet Russia, pitched battle, Napoleonic Wars


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