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61 - 58 - Emperor Paul is also preparing for the war. Napoleon should then regret his despotism and his arrogance: Napo leon is ready to prepare for the immediate attack on England in Flanders and Brittany. In the south the Spaniards should unite with the Russian Black Sea fleet. Portugal and the Kingdom of both Sicily are to participate in the blockade. Russian and French troops are to occupy a port in Sicily and Hanover. Thus, Napoleon says, the English are cut off the connection with the mainland. By pointing out the planned construction of the Suez Canal and its mediation at the gate, he is looking for Russian trade from the North Sea to the south. 2) "The English are about to enjoy me and my covenant, the Swedes and Danes, to fall over with fleet and army; I am bareited to receive them, but one must also attack them even where the blow is most sensitive for them and they least expect him" - that is, in India. Thus, on January 2nd, l8ol, the emperor writes to the Ataman of the Donkosaks, General Count Vasily Petrovich Orlov.3) When the French enlist England themselves, Russian troops are to advance via Orenburg through Chiwa and Bukhara to India, destroy the commercial Niederlassungen of the English, liberate the oppressed native rulers and replace the English influence with the Russian.On February 27th, the completely unprepared Cossack army marches, but is called back to the news of Paul's death and is thus saved from the fall. Napoleon, by the way, also planned to take action with Russia against Inlien - a thought which he had pursued up to l8l2. 1) Letter from Paul I to Napoleon of 27 January 180l at Šil'der p.420. 2) Stählin 3, pp.31-32. 3) Text of the letter by Sil'er p.4l7; cf. also Aluksandrenko 1, p.86; Stächlin 3 , p.32-33; Šumigorskij p. 198.