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There was a serious war going on at the time in Europe[0]. It featured the largest army of all time until then and almost a million casualties, compared to the
by dmurray 7y ago
There was a serious war going on at the time in Europe[0]. It featured the largest army of all time until then and almost a million casualties, compared to the 5,000 toll of this border skirmish. And incidentally inspired one of the best known classical music pieces.
If anything it's good that American kids don't learn of this trifle in school, allowing them more time to study the events that really shaped the modern world. Right?
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Russia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Russia
- kd5bjo 7y agoWhere I went to school (in the US, but there weren’t unified standards at the time), US and European history were taught separately, in alternate years. So we got both the war of 1812, and the Napoleonic Wars, but there was little to connect them to each other except for the dates.