How was Emperor Paul I going to help Napoleon in the war against Great Britain? Detailed answer

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How was Emperor Paul I going to help Napoleon in the war against Great Britain?

Having established friendly relations with Napoleon Bonaparte, the first consul of France, at the end of 1800, the Russian Emperor Paul I decided to help him in the fight against England.

On January 12, 1801, the emperor sent several rescripts to the ataman of the Don Army, General Orlov 1st. They ordered to immediately raise the Cossack regiments and move them to Orenburg, and from there by direct route to India, in order to "hit the enemy in his heart."

On the same days, the Cossack ataman Matvey Ivanovich Platov, who had been planted by Paul for some unknown reason in the Peter and Paul Fortress for six months, was suddenly taken out of his casemate and taken directly to the royal office. There he was asked without any preamble if he knew the way to India. Understanding nothing, but guessing that in the event of a negative answer, he would be taken back to the fortress, Platov replied that he knew. He was immediately appointed head of one of the echelons of troops sent to India. On February 27, 1801, Cossack regiments rose from the Don and went east.

In total, 22,5 thousand people followed in four echelons. They did not have long to go: on the night of March 11-12, in the Mikhailovsky Castle, the conspirators, incited by the British, killed Paul I.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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