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Swiss troops recall a disastrous campaign

Musee de l’Armée, Paris

It is just 200 years since Swiss troops fought one of their bloodiest battles ever, at the Berezina river in what is now Belarus. They were among men from all over Europe serving in Napoleon’s Grande Armée in his ill-fated invasion of Russia.

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