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Are there any battles won by using meteorological conditions?

1794 In the late autumn, French Napoleon's army launched a fierce attack on the Netherlands. In the face of a formidable enemy, the Dutch army was unable to defend itself and fight back. In desperation, the canal sluice was temporarily and urgently opened in an attempt to stop Napoleon's offensive with rolling floods and force the enemy to retreat.

The Dutch contingency plan really worked. Napoleon was at a loss when he saw the raging flood, so he had to order the whole army to retreat. At the same time of withdrawing troops, Charles Piglio, commander-in-chief of the French army and Napoleon's teacher, suddenly ordered to stop withdrawing troops. The soldiers kept talking: "Why on earth is this?" The original learned Charles? Pigliou found that some local spiders were spinning a lot of webs. This indicates that dry and cold weather is coming, because spiders are very sensitive to the humidity change of the outside air. Sure enough, the European continent was hit by a cold wave, strong cold air swept across the European continent, and the rolling flood froze overnight. Stepping on the ice and snow, the French army crossed the Val River, conquered and occupied Utrecht, a traffic fortress in the hinterland of the Netherlands, and successfully completed the operational plan. Afterwards, he said: If it weren't for the "living weather instrument"-the spider gave me this correct "attack order", we couldn't have conquered the enemy's important place so quickly.