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  • # She has a brother, Kutuzov's adjutant, the one who recently married Lise Meinen.

    'War and Peace' 2007

  • It was self-interested and foolish generals who damaged Kutuzov's reputation, along with the British ambassador, who convinced the meddlesome tsar of the marshal's willingness to capitulate.

    Short Reviews Editors, The 1977

  • We may doubt whether "not even Napoleon could match Kutuzov's clarity of strategic vision," but Clausewitz, the Prussian military genius who served under Kutuzov, later described him as Napoleon's most dangerous antagonist.

    Short Reviews Editors, The 1977

  • Parkinson, a military historian, faults Kutuzov's decisions only once: for the failure to destroy Napoleon's hungry, freezing army at Krasnyi after its retreat from Moscow.

    Short Reviews Editors, The 1977

  • On the third day after Kutuzov's report a country gentleman arrived from

    War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869

  • And by means of that mysterious indefinable bond which maintains throughout an army one and the same temper, known as "the spirit of the army," and which constitutes the sinew of war, Kutuzov's words, his order for a battle next day, immediately became known from one end of the army to the other.

    War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869

  • So fresh instructions were sent for the solution of difficulties that might be encountered, as well as fresh people who were to watch Kutuzov's actions and report upon them.

    War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869

  • Prince Kutuzov's adjutant has brought me a letter in which he demands police officers to guide the army to the Ryazan road.

    War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869

  • A crowd of military men was assembled there, members of the staff could be heard conversing in French, and Kutuzov's gray head in

    War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869

  • Still more difficult would it be to find an instance in history of the aim of an historical personage being so completely accomplished as that to which all Kutuzov's efforts were directed in 1812.

    War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869

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