“Like Charles XII a hundred years before him,<\/p>\n
and Hindenburg and Hitler in the century after,<\/p>\n
Napoleon learned that whoever fights Russia<\/p>\n
fights against time and space enlarged by poor roads,<\/p>\n
and a blind hatred in the hearts of the peasants and<\/p>\n
townspeople along the line of march.<\/p>\n
Russians have not always made good soldiers,<\/p>\n
but in modern times when they have defended their own<\/p>\n
lands they have been as tenacious and brave as the best.”<\/p>\n
Excerpt from “The Emergence of European Civilization”,<\/p>\n
pg. 707.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Author: John B. Wolf, University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n
Publishers: Harper and Row, New York, Evanston, and London.<\/p>\n
To any Americans out there who might research the above,<\/p>\n
I suggest you read through to pg. 708.<\/p>\n
Islander.<\/p>\n
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