"The Duke and the Tsar" Topic

"I'll bet allot of you don't know about the Duke of Wellington's mission to St Petersburg in 1826. Well I wasn't too familiar with it either, so I looked into it and found a great story, so after having my Adventure I had to let you all know about it, this is the story of the Duke and the Tsar, or more accurately of the St Petersburg Protocol, mysterious isn't it?

On the 1st of December 1825 one of the principle architects of Napoleon's downfall died. Tsar Alexander I breathed his last at the palace at Tanganrog without an heir, creating a constitutional crisis that reached its peak and ended at the same time, no less than 26 days later. A society of disenchanted army soldiers, called the Decembrists marched on Senate Square in St Petersburg to oppose the ascension of Tsar Nicholas I. Fighting ensued, and when the guns fell silent another hero of the war against Napoleon lay dying, General Mikhail Miloradovich. He succumbed to his wounds on 27 December, shot in the back by a man who spoke his own language and wore the same uniform…."
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Part II here….
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Amicalement
Armand

Ehh.. I thinked, that here will be talked about offering command of Russian invasion armies to Duke in 1811.

(smile)

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Armand