Hussein
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As you say yourself, Russia was an ally of England
Invasion of Russia was stupid.
As well you're right about India but i was for Iran too... he didn't care (English were more smart abotu it) about far away countries which could help him
Invasion of Russia was stupid.
Napoleon's "first" Polish war, the War of the Fourth Coalition to liberate Poland (from Russia, Prussia and Austria), he saw as such because one of the official declared goals of this war was the resurrection of the Polish state on territories of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Tsar Alexander found Russia in an economic bind as his country had little in the way of manufacturing yet was rich in raw materials and relied heavily on trade with Napoleon's continental system for both money and manufactured goods. Russia's withdrawal from the system was a further incentive to Napoleon to force a decision
As well you're right about India but i was for Iran too... he didn't care (English were more smart abotu it) about far away countries which could help him