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Barry didn’t die from a bayonet.
I expect the tale of this hero dog’s allegedly untimely demise was spun to make Napoleon look bad, because the French emperor was kind of a jerk. Barry was a precursor to the modern St. Bernard, a mountain rescue dog who was of a smaller build than the behemoth breed we’re familiar wit…
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