Historic Doubts Relative To Napoleon Buonaparte by Richard Whately
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were the parties that burned the city of Moscow?âwithout ever
thinking of the preliminary question, whether it ever was burnt at all. And now at length we learn that it never was. The following extract from a New Orleans paper contains the information obtained by an American travellerâone of that great nation whose accuracy as to facts is so well knownâwho visited the spot. INCIDENTS OF TRAVELâCITY OF MOSCOW. Senator Douglas is said to have made the discovery, while travelling in Russia, that the city of Moscow was never burned! The following statement of the matter is from the Muscatine (Iowa) Inquirer: "Coming on the boat, a few days ago, we happened to fall in company with Senator Douglas, who came on board at Quincy, on his way to Warsaw. In the course of a very interesting account of his travels in Russia, much of which has been published by letter-writers, he stated a fact which has never yet been published, but which startlingly contradicts the historical relation of one of the most extraordinary events that ever fell to the lot of history to record. For this reason the Judge said he felt a delicacy in making the assertion, that the city of Moscow was never burned! "He said, that previous to his arrival at Moscow, he had several disputes with his guide as to the burning of the city, the guide |
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