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Napoleon Note - Laurie Verge - 11-30-2012 11:50 AM
Moving to a different war for one brief moment: I don't know about the rest of the U.S., but here in the Washington-Baltimore region, the War of 1812 is getting a lot of attention. In my usual lunchtime perusal of what's happening in the world according to the internet, I just found this interesting article on an upcoming auction of a letter sent to Paris by Napoleon as he was licking his wounds on the outskirts of Moscow. In code, the General decides that blowing up the Kremlin is his only choice. Check it out at:
http://news.yahoo.com/napoleons-secret-coded-kremlin-letter-sale-050329066.html