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The death of the invasion. Painting by Vasily Nesterenko. In the Napoleonic era, the fate of the wounded abandoned on the battlefield was unenviable. This is the second article on the French medical service of the era of the Napoleonic wars. In the first article, the Medical Service of Napoleon's Grand Army, we told about the history of its

Napoleon before the dying Marshal Lann after the Battle of Essling. Painting by Paul-Emile Boutigny. The conditions of keeping the wounded in the hospitals of the era of the Napoleonic wars are clearly visible. Most of the wars of the XNUMXth century at their initial stages focused on the siege of border fortresses, so that after them