War and Peace vocabulary

After Napoleon’s latest victories in central Europe, he was riding high. After the Russian army had been annihilated, Napoleon’s men had set up camp right outside the Russian outpost of Tilsit, a strategic location situated right between Prussian and Russian territory in Poland.

History, Hourly. Napoleon: A Life From Beginning To End (One Hour History Military Generals Book 1) . Hourly History

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On the thirteenth of June the French and Russian Emperors arrived in Tilsit. Boris Drubetskoy had asked the important personage on whom he was in attendance, to include him in the suite appointed for the stay at Tilsit.

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster