Two hundred years ago my Great great Grandfather, Balthasar Dietz was born in the small village of Nordeck, Hessen, Germany.
This was the year of the virtual defeat of Napoleons army at Moscow, haveing captured the city, he found it burned out with none of the anticipated supplies for his army of half a million men. Being faced with the prospect of the advent of the Russian winter there began the great retreat of his army , commemorated in the 1812 overture.
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