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Message:: [QUOTE="JCro57, post: 3227378, member: 92083"]I am a history teacher. I showed my kids a passage from a soldier who was in Napoleon's army when Russia got invaded. The retreating Russians torched their villages and farm fields and slaughtered their livestock. Because many of his soldiers got paid simply by acquiring spoils of war, they ditched winter coats in their knapsackss during the Fall to make room for things like silverware, jewelry and art. Well, the conflict lasted through the winter, and there was no food as every village they came across was burned, there were no animals to eat, and no food was found; not even animals to hunt because there was no food for them either. To eat, some of the officers carved chunks out of their horses (still alive), while others at dead ones that froze or starved to death. Anyway, even worse, some of Napoleon's men slept in what was left of a barn one night, which later caught fire. This soldier awakened to see some of the troops were so starved that they were eating the charred remains of their fellow soldiers.[/QUOTE]