in order to maintain the morale of the cossacks, the tsar has promised to give the hand of his daughter, the grand duchess, to a cossack, who would bring him the head of napoleon. cossacks rushed into the fight, which brought them to the town of paris. but soon the regiment, where tereshchenko served, was ordered to stay at the apartments outside the french capital. for a few months, tereshchenko and his fellow cossacks stayed near the town of beauvais, where the fertile soils of the bree valley were producing beets just like at his homeland ukraine. at the same time, there was the ongoing blockade, the british announced to france, hindering deliveries of sugarcane from the antilles. and one of the napoleon's plans was to set up production of sugar from beets. the french began implementing the state plan enthusiastically and in northern france this strategically important production had started establishing.