Index – Science – March into Russia’s winter and fall due to cannabis

12/09/2020 Science, World

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In early 1812, almost all of Europe was before Napoleon Bonaparte, and Russia was an ally for years. Only England resisted the French emperor. So why did he go to the Russian steppe, to Moscow, with the largest army in history, half a million, to Moscow? And did he lose two-thirds of his army and sacrifice his power?

But not because of the active ingredients from India or hashish (Cannabis indica), hashish and marijuana. Not just for every Napoleon campaign in compartments he took champagne with him. Before the big battles, he visited his champagne friend Jean-Rémy Moët, a champagne friend he had met at a military academy as a child. The only exception, it seems, was the Battle of Waterloo, which, as we know, wasn’t exactly in a good mood for him.

Casus belli is a seed hemp (Cannabis sativa).

It was an allergenic weed of arable land and moors, a well-known fiber plant.

It is known and used by humanity for thousands of years, all over the world, mainly for the fibers of its bagpipes. The navies and ships of the time could not move without it. Hemp canvas sails and rigging were strategic products, they couldn’t be replaced by anything else. Unlike candles made from another common fiber plant, flax, hemp did not rot from salty air and spray water in a few months.

Russia is a hemp superpower

The largest supplier at the time was Russia, which produced 80 percent of the hemp and hemp products used in the Western world at the time. In addition, thanks to the labor of slaves and servants, he produced the best quality hemp vases, ropes and nets in the world for pennies.

90 percent of the hemp used for the British fleet came from Russia. It was the number one commercial product of the tsarist empire, even ahead of fur and wood. It is no exaggeration to say that the British navy, which was building a colonial empire, was committed to Russian hemp.

Napoleon and the Russian Tsar Alexander I were in fact allies.

Years earlier, they concluded the Tilset Convention, which prohibited all legal trade with Great Britain, as well as with any other neutral country whose ships want to mediate between Great Britain and Russia.

Napoleon ruled Europe, however, the English fleet, after Admiral Nelson defeated him several times, and at Trafalgar he practically destroyed the French. The emperor, for want of a better one, tried to bring the British under continental blockade. British sailboats could not enter or leave, and no European country could trade with them.

Without Russia, however, the tactic would not have been successful.

He wanted at all costs to prevent vital Russian hemp from reaching England. With that, he wanted to ruin the British navy. But they also didn’t have access to wood or other raw materials, and they felt it. But Russia’s backward economy has also suffered severe damage. In the years that followed, it became clear that, despite all the emperor’s efforts, the blockade was not closed perfectly. Smuggling has flourished in Europe. Russia, in 1811, terminated the agreement.

War or peace

According to some historians, Napoleon first intended his fort to march towards a show of strength. In fact, he wanted to preserve and revive the broken Russian-French “friendship” without armed conflict.

Although it is possible that he was very upset that he had twice received a basket from the tsarist family. When he wanted to marry members of the Romanov dynasty in 1809, he asked for the hand of Alexander I’s sister, Yekaterina Pavlovna, who was immediately attached to Prince George of Oldenbug. Then his attention turned to Anna Pavlovna, but the mother-in-law rejected the offer, saying that she was too young to marry.

He did not give up. At the beginning of 1810, his agents in Vienna, under the Austrian Emperor Francis I, whom he had defeated, handcuffed him and asked for the hand of his daughter, Maria Lujza. They did not romanticize much, the marriage contract was signed immediately, and the splendidly beautiful wedding also took place on March 11.

In the absence of Napoleon.

But after were also included for a face-to-face meeting, at least born Napoleon François Joseph Charles Bonaparte, French imperial prince, heir to the throne, the “Eagle”, who He died of tuberculosis in 1832. His ashes were transported from occupied Vienna to occupied Paris as a gift from Adolf Hitler. 1940-ben, and was placed in the imperial crypt of the Cathedral of the Invalides, near the tomb of his father. It still rests here today.

Marriage of Maria Lujza to Napoleon at the Louvre on April 2, 1810

The Führer did not learn from Napoleon, he was also an ally of Soviet Russia (Molotov-Ribbentrop Non-Aggression Pact), and he also thought that he could defeat the Russian winter and infinite areas with the largest army of his time. For years he besieged Moscow in vain, never took it. Not so Napoleon, who succeeded, marched into an empty ghost town.