National Postal Museum
Retreat of Napoleon's Grand Army from Russia cover
December 14, 1812
In 1812 an Italian soldier in Napoleon's multinational Grand Armee---the largest fighting force Europe had ever seen---wrote this letter home from Prussia during the army's retreat from Russia. Only a third of the men survived. The brown military postal marking, used during the retreat, is rare.
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