The Messenger - Unit II

      MOSCOW IS IN FLAMES  

                                                                                                                     Tuesday 15/09/1812 (Perm) 

It´s official. Napoleon is against us!

The last Monday, 14 of September, the Emperor of France arrived with his army in Moscow, and would have taken the city if our great army hadn’t done anything or hadn’t moved the citizens. But why did we have to get to this point?
Napoleon has been ruling in France since 1804 as its Emperor (obviously, he declared himself the Emperor) and he has got kind of prestigious for conquering the most part of Europe, even if he’s having problems with Great Britain. 
Spaniards are trying to revolt, but, in the middle of that, Napoleon has decided to go to our homeland, that’s how greedy he is. 

Alexander I, Our Tzar

But we won’t surrender, we didn’t the last 7th in the Battle of Borodino, we could even resist the bloodiest war that the French Army has ever done. Fortunately, our great Tzar, Alexander I, has the perfect ways of winning this war, we’ll use our big land to weak the enemy, we won’t give anything to them, it’s preferable burning it down that to allow them to get it. And that’s what happened in Moscow. Our army took most of the people with them, they abandoned the city and let it in flames, just to not permit the enemy to stole us any supply. 

The moment when the invincible Napoleon’s Grande Armée will weaken is near, and then Russia will took its revenge.

The Battle of Borodino

THE EXPLORER NEWS - UNIT 2

19/06/1815

NAPOLEON BITES THE DUST

The Napoleonic army was defeated yesterday in a battle that took place near the city of Waterloo.

Yesterday a brutal armed confrontation took place between the French imperial army of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Seventh Coalition.

As you know, Napoleon has tried to conquer territories all over the continent, and because of those imminent wars and conquests, Great Britain, Sweden, Holland, Prussia, Russia, Spain and Germany, decided to create the Seventh Coalition in order to defeat him. Although Napoleon Bonaparte had the support of officers and soldiers loyal to the French imperial army, he could not avoid the union of the allied armies. Now, Napoleon is expected to be exiled to the island of Santa Elena and, as it has happened on similar cases during History, probably the Napoleonic Empire will come to an end and the French monarchy will be restored, as it was defeated by Napoleon. According to that, we suppose that all the territories conquered by Bonaparte all over Europe, will be part again of the country they belonged to initially.

For you to understand better how this battle went by, we interviewed one of the survivors of the battle. He has told us his version: "Firstly, we were summoned by Arthur Wellesley at 09:30 in the morning in the Mont-Saint-Pont. Our compatriots came very scared since they had faced the Napoleonic Army in the village of Quatre Bras, in addition, they have been persecuted by them the day before. Around 11:30 a.m., when we were all together, the battle started. From then onwards everything became very bloody and bleak." And he added in tears: "It was horrible to see my mates losing their lifes one by one and I went down in the dumps."

On our part, we will keep you informed about the events referent to the battle and its consequences.

If you click on this video, you will see a recreation of the battle and live it as if you were there:

And if you click on this one, you will see a small and brief explanation of the battle, in case you have any doubt:

HISTORICAL JOURNALISTS-UNIT 2

Wednesday,20th July 1808

THEY ARE BLEEDING!

SPANIARDS DEFEATED FRENCH AT BAYLEN
Yesterday , 19th July The Battle of Baylen  , where the spaniards fought against french troops , took place.

It was the first time that spaniards got to defeat the french army in a openfield battle.

Napoleon is extremely furious  because it was the first time he lost a battle.


The Boards of government of Seville (Supreme Board of Spain and the Indies) and Granada, under the presidency of Francisco de Saavedra, began the recruitment of two armies, which were to cut the road through Sierra Morena to the French.

In the showdown 21.000 french soldiers commanded by  General Dupont faced against a spanish contingent formed by 27.000 men , commanded by General Castaños. It should be noted that more than half of the Andalusian army (About 17.000 soldiers) was made up of volunteers.

They won because of some circustances:the local population supported everything they could for their troops,the most decisive aid was the water supply for the soldiers on a very hot day of the Andalusian summer.Due to the high temperatures,French artillery was affected and many cannons were destroyed.


Because of that, Joseph I Bonaparte has to leave Madrid by force , obviously doubting the invincibility of the French.

Here we have a little video about this important battle: