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Welcome to the Age of Napoleon.

Episode 102, VanXen's Gamble.

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Anyway, we last left the narrative in early June 1807 about four months after the harrowing

ordeal of I-Low.

Napoleon and the Grand Armee were in the province of East Prussia, slightly north of the former

border with the Polish Commonwealth.

They had just fought another brutal battle against the main coalition field army under

Count 11 August von Benegsen, this time at the town of Heilsberg on the banks of the

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