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The "1812" covers the main events of the war with Napoleon in the summer to the winter of 1812 - the moment when the "great army" invaded the Russian Empire, until the moment when its remnants were driven back.
On 26th August, 1812, two huge armies were doing the last preparations to one of the bloodiest battle of the epoch near the village of Borodino, 124 kilometers away from Moscow. A quarter of ...
The Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne (1812 - 1813) offer a personal account of his experiences during Napoleon's Russian campaign. As a sergeant in the Imperial...
22 maj 2024 · After taking Moscow, Napoleon was forced into a brutal and ignominious retreat that saw tens of thousands of his men perish in the freezing Russian winter. Featuring period imagery, dramatised 'eye witness' accounts, expert comment and analysis, and extracts from the Russian film of 'War and Peace'.
5 lis 2019 · Video. An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio. An illustration of a 3.5" floppy disk. ... Live Music Archive Librivox Free Audio. Featured. All Audio; Grateful Dead; Netlabels; Old Time Radio; ... The Russian campaign, 1812 by Fezensac, Raymond-Aymery-Philippe-Joseph de Montesquiou, duc de, 1784-1867. Publication date 1970
3 lis 2024 · Napoleonic Wars - Russia, Europe, 1812: The Russians refused to come to terms, and both military and political dangers could be foreseen if the French were to winter in Moscow. After waiting for a month, Napoleon began his retreat, his army now 110,000 strong, on October 19, 1812.
Russian historians tended to focus on the French invasion of Russia in 1812 and ignore the campaigns in 1813–1814 fought in Germany and France, because a campaign fought on Russian soil was regarded as more important than campaigns abroad and because in 1812 the Russians were commanded by the ethnic Russian Kutuzov while in the campaigns in ...
