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Re:Paradoxical Geniuses: “Let us burn the ships” (2017) by lostlogin on Thursday November 28, 2019 @01:31PM (#21659312)
The original graph is best, I think. It demonstrates this effect very well.

http://nowscape.com/images/map_napoleon_moscow.gif

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

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Re:Paradoxical Geniuses: “Let us burn the ships” (2017) by mikhailfranco on Thursday November 28, 2019 @10:29PM (#21661789)
This is what one of those little steps in the graph was like: the crossing of the Berezina river - a desperate battle between 100,000 men, with combat engineering of a 100m bridge, and stragglers falling to marauding cossacks ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Berezina

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