Question: When did the people who won the Battle of Borodino come to the middle leg of the journey from England to Africa to the Americas?

Historically the particular routes were also shaped by the powerful influence of winds and currents during the age of sail. For example, from the main trading nations of Western Europe it was much easier to sail westwards after first going south of 30 N latitude and reaching the so - called ``trade winds ''; thus arriving in the Caribbean rather than going straight west to the North American mainland. Returning from North America, it is easiest to follow the Gulf Stream in a northeasterly direction using the westerlies. A similar triangle to this, called the volta do mar was already being used by the Portuguese, before Christopher Columbus' voyage, to sail to the Canary Islands and the Azores. Columbus simply expanded the triangle outwards, and his route became the main way for Europeans to reach, and return from, the Americas. <SEP> the story, illustrated by the author, is set in england during the middle ages, as the black death (bubonic plague) is sweeping across the country. young robin is sent away to become a knight like his father, but his dreams are endangered when he loses the use of his legs. a doctor reassures robin that the weakness in his legs is not caused by the plague and the doctor is supposed to come and help him but does not. his parents are away, serving the king and queen during war, and the servants abandon the house, fearing the plague. robin is saved by brother luke, a friar, who finds him and takes him to a monastery and cares for him. <SEP> Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc was a French trader and adventurer in the Caribbean, who established the first permanent French colony, Saint - Pierre, on the island of Martinique in 1635. In 1626 he returned to France, where he won the support of Cardinal Richelieu to establish French colonies in the region. Richelieu became a shareholder in the Compagnie de Saint - Christophe, created to accomplish this with d'Esnambuc at its head. Belain sailed to the Caribbean in 1625, hoping to establish a French settlement on the island of St. Christopher (St. Kitts). The company was not particularly successful and Richelieu had it reorganized as the Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique. In 1635 d'Esnambuc sailed to Martinique with one hundred French settlers to clear land for sugarcane plantations. <SEP> the last english king (1997) is a historical novel by english writer julian rathbone. the novel covers the time of the battle of hastings. it revolves around walt edwinson, a housecarl of harold godwinson, the last anglo-saxon king of england. the story starts with walt returning to his home at iwerne in dorset four years after the battle of hastings. he had fled england after the defeat of the anglo-saxons and had spent the time travelling across europe and asia minor. the story of his journey from constantinople via nicomedia and nicaea to side is then recounted in parallel with his recollections of the time before the battle, such as his accompanying harold to william of normandy's attack on dinan. <SEP> The Russians eventually offered battle outside Moscow on 7 September: the Battle of Borodino resulted in approximately 44,000 Russian and 35,000 French dead, wounded or captured, and may have been the bloodiest day of battle in history up to that point in time. Napoleon's own account was: "The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible." Although the French had won, the Russian army had accepted, and withstood, the major battle Napoleon had hoped would be decisive.