Good morning.
Whitewater’s week ends with sunny skies and a high of seventy-three.
On this day in 1812, Napoleon entered Moscow, only to find his achievement a Pyrrhic victory:
One week after winning a bloody victory over the Russian army at the Battle of Borodino, Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grande Armée enters the city of Moscow, only to find the population evacuated and the Russian army retreated again. Moscow was the goal of the invasion, but the deserted city held no czarist officials to sue for peace and no great stores of food or supplies to reward the French soldiers for their long march. Then, just after midnight, fires broke out across the city, apparently set by Russian patriots, leaving Napoleon’s massive army with no means to survive the coming Russian winter.
Google’s daily puzzle ask about a presumptuous question: “What did I do after I said, ‘They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance’?”