La Bataille de Bautzen 1813

He was by his side when Moreau was mortally by an artillery shot directed by Napoleon at the Battle of Dresden in 1813. Svinyin was sometimes called the Russian Munchausen because of his overtly expressive travel writings. He was also a fine painter, as demonstrated above, again using the subject matter coming out of the New World. Moving eastward to Siberia, Matvei Gedenschtrom was a Swede living in Estonia who had been arrested for smuggling. He was banished to Siberia, and in 1813 began an official role an explorer for the Irkutsk governor. He charted much of the coastline of northern Siberia and discovered several islands in the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia. He had a tendency towards Excessive behavioral traits...he was accused several times of graft and corruption...he died dirt poor and probably drunk. Like Siberia, Gedenschtrom was Extreme. Eight Trigrams Uprising In China, 1813 was the year of the Eight Trigrams Uprising. Affecting several provinces, ultimately, the uprising was overcome when the Dowager Prince used the forbidden sword to put down the uprising. The Eunuchs at the Forbidden Palace had a role to play in the uprising and it had some similarity to the Boxer Rebellion in 1898.

Eight Trigrams Uprising in China

Japan remained closed to the outside world in 1813. A Russian captain, Golovnin,and the crew of his sloop, were captured and held while exploring the Kurile Islands in 1811. Finally, with the

La Bataille de Bautzen 1813

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