Poster: Napoleon's March
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Poster: Napoleon's March
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Re: Poster: Napoleon's March
#2If you like this type of thing, you should probably take a look at Tufte's book ‘Beautiful Evidence’. It contains these images too, along with a whole lot of opinions.
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#3I cant' read anything on the thumbnail.
How seeing the poster a bit larger? Paywalls again...
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#4I cant' read anything on the thumbnail. How seeing the poster a bit larger? Paywalls again...
It's a pretty famous example of a great chart. "Napoleon's march" in Google image search returns a bunch of results, eg this one:
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#5I'm not sure I'd be comfortable displaying such a harrowing death toll on my wall
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#6I have this poster (from Tufte) - it's an extremely high quality print for the price.
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#7If you like this type of thing... Having taken his one-day "class," I highly recommend it. A wonderful, saturated experience on how to structure data, and allowing it to become maximum-useful information. And no, he does not like PowerPoint. Ticket price includes his four hardbound books.
(I don't work for him, get a kickback, etc.)
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#8I'm not sure I'd be comfortable displaying such a harrowing death toll on my wall
The best thing you can do is to never have posters that document any aspect of the human race.
Spoiler: We all die. So it goes.
At least with history we're detached from the instant of death and can perhaps learn how to avoid prematurely bringing on death.
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#9For a little background, Clausewitz writes about this in his famous book. When wondering how the enourmous losses came about, remember:
- the Grande Armee was walking from Paris to Moscow, and quartering in the field along the way.
- the army was fed (as routine for all pre-railway armies) by local looting.
- the Russian response to this was to burn everything in the path of the advancing army that they might capture or make use of. This rendered the original plan to spend the winter in Moscow impossible.
A large fraction of the army starved, as was to happen later to the German 6th Army at Stalingrad. Or froze due to lack of available fuel. Or slipped away in the night to forage and never came back.
Re: Poster: Napoleon's March
#10For a little background, Clausewitz writes about this in his famous book. When wondering how the enourmous losses came about, remember: - the Grande Armee was walking from Paris to Moscow, and quartering in the field along the way. - the army was fed (as routine for all pre-railway armies) by local looting. - the Russian response to this was to burn everything in the path of the advancing army that they might capture…
Tufte points out that a large fraction of the losses occurred before the really bad weather set in. I also wonder how far there was an "original plan". Napoleon may have expected Alexander to ask for terms well before he captured Moscow; or he may have imagined wintering in Smolensk or marching on St. Petersburg.