Surrounded by French troops, several times superior to its number, the small Suvorov army was on the edge of the death in the Mutten Valley of Switzerland. The old Field Marshal – at that time he was already sixty -eight years old – for the first time put all his orders and, having laid out the current position, said the following words: “There is only one hope for God and the courage and selflessness of our troops. Save the honor of Russia and its sovereign!” And the army performs a miracle. The enemy confident in a close victory suffers a defeat, and Suvorov breaks out of the stone bag, and even takes the captured French soldiers and officers with him. A brilliant Russian commander who has not lost a single battle, a gentleman of all Russian orders of that time, the prince of Italy, Count of Rymnik, the count of the Holy Roman Empire, the owner of the rank of which is not, the generalissimo of all Russian troops, Suvorov raised military art to a new level for the era, becoming his pride of …
Author
Presnukhin Mikhail Alexandrovich
Editor
Nikitin K.
Publisher
AST-Press, 2017
Series
Guide to the history of Russia
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