The piece had last seen service about 350 years prior during the Siege of Constantinople in 1453 and now resides in Fort Nelson.
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The Russian emperor, Alexander I, was alarmed by these developments as he had already deployed a significant force to Poland and East Prussia to fight the advancing French forces under Emperor Napoleon I.
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