Napoleon’s Buttons by Penny LeCouter & Jay Burreson Summary
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Discover how seventeen molecules secretly shaped civilization. Napoleon's Russian campaign failed partly because tin buttons crumbled in the cold - just one example of chemistry's hidden influence on history that educators and scientists can't stop recommending.
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When Molecules Moved Mountains
A button destroyed an empire. In 1812, Napoleon's Grande Armee marched into Russia with 600,000 men. Six months later, fewer than 10,000 staggered home. History blames the brutal winter, scorched-earth tactics, and overextended supply lines. But there's a curious footnote: the tin buttons on French uniforms may have crumbled in the cold, leaving soldiers unable to fasten their coats against the killing frost. While historians debate this theory's validity, it captures something profound-the smallest molecular shifts can topple nations, spark revolutions, and rewrite the human story. We live in a world shaped not just by kings and generals, but by invisible arrangements of atoms that determined who lived, who died, who explored new continents, and who remained enslaved. Chemistry isn't just what happens in laboratories. It's the hidden architecture of civilization itself.
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