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In the TV episode 'Sharpe's Siege', French Brigadier Calvet, who survived the Russian campaign, speaks disparagingly of Major Ducos, who was in Spain in 1812. Was there actually an internal enmity in the French army from those who had fought in Russia, directed at those who hadn't?

by /u/EnclavedMicrostate in /r/AskHistorians

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