FLIGHT OF THE EAGLE

JANUARY 1808 FRENCH TURN
Napoleon tends to matters of state in Paris while Soult raises a new army in Toulouse to oppose the English landing at Bayonne. In Poland, Massena warily watches the Russians while the Grande Armee rests in its winter quarters.

JANUARY 1808 ALLIED TURN
Moore is ordered back to England. Whitehall discounts rumors that Moore's recall was due to his disasterous campaign against the Spanish army, insisting that an ailing back and a spot of gout are the reasons for his return to Plymouth. In his place, an obscure general from India, Wellington, assumes command of the expeditionary force at Bayonne.

Barclay departs the great Russian fortified camp on the Dneiper at the head of 70,000 men to do battle with the Turks