Napoleon’s Moscow march never seems to end

Well I’ve managed to hold off for 53 posts but finally I’m compelled to discuss Minard’s 1869 graph depicting Napoleon’s 1812 march on Moscow, a graph famously described by Edward Tufte as possibly being “the best statistical graphic ever drawn“. It has come up now because Andrew Arbela on The Extreme Presentation Method blog has published a […]

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