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    Joseph de Ferraris and Louis Capitaine were involved:
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    . Without a better handle on how the evidence was analyzed to allow
    those specific conclusions in the article linked by Matthew, it
    might be hard to say much more?<br>
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      Dear All:
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      <div>This just came across the transom …</div>
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      <div>The argument is that Napoleon used a <b>printed</b> map
        derived from a <b>manuscript</b> map, and both were wrong, so
        that Napoleon misplaced his artillery.</div>
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      <div>I don't know enough about the events of the battle, but I'm
        pretty sure that the French were not printing battle maps at
        this point . . . does anyone have a better and non-journalistic
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      <div>Thanks</div>
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            Matthew Edney<br>
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