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Where is it? That great lofty sky that I did not know til now, but saw today?

This hill held the entire purpose for my pilgrimage to Europe. I read the first half of War and Peace the summer before I started my senior year of college. While the book is fiction, it chronicles some real historical events. One such main event is the Battle of Austerlitz. Here, Napoleon routed the combined armies of the Holy Roman Empire and Russia so badly he effectively ended the War of the Third Coalition. This was considered the crowning jewel of Napoleon’s military command. One of the chapters in the book follows a main character named…