"England will repent of bringing the Russians so far: they will deprive her of India."
— Napoleon

January 1, 1970

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Comment made to Lord John Russell, Elba 1814, as recorded in Russell's journal and quoted in Lady John Russell: A Memoir (1910) edited by Desmond McCarthy and Agatha Russell. p. 56