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Week 31 Recap: "The Game Had Begun"
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Week 31 Recap: "The Game Had Begun"

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Jeremy Anderberg
Aug 06, 2022
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The Battle of Borodino, which took place on September 7, 1812, was the single bloodiest day of fighting in the entirety of the Napoleonic Wars. With about 300,000 total men fighting that day, it’s possible that up to 100,000 ended up as casualties (total wounded, dead, or missing) with perhaps a quarter of that number dead. Those numbers are far higher …

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