Commentaries on the War in Russia and Germany in 1812 and 1813

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THE year 1812, the period from which the following memoirs commence, must ever hold a place of peculiar interest in the history of the world, as one of those epochs when the fortunes of an European conqueror, after being permitted to flow on for a series of years in an unrestrained and unparalleled course of prosperity, appear suddenly to have been limited by fate, and made subject to the injunction, "Thus far shalt thou come, and no farther."