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August 26, 1812 on the 124-km west of Moscow, in a field near the village of Borodino, two great armies fought final preparations for one of the bloodiest battles of the era. A quarter of a million people, more than a thousand guns.
History of Warfare | Napoleon's Road To Moscow | 1812. It was to be Napoleon Bonaparte's greatest adventure, an invasion of Russia with an army of more than 650,000 men, the largest the...
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...
Is it true that in 1812 Napoleon lost 90% of his troops? And if so, how did it happen and why? Minard lays out some answers to these questions in the form of statistics and line width: tactical...
Napoleon Invades Russia. (4m 20s) tv-pg. When Napoleon invades Russia in 1812, an unexpected adversary brings ruin to his troops.
But, public opinion demanded a major battle and, on September 7, at the village of Borodino 125 km from Moscow, the Russians and French encountered each other in a brutal engagement.
An abandoned city. Napoleon's Grand Armee catching sight of Moscow, 1812. Early 20th century book illustration/Global Look Press. After much deliberation, General Mikhail Kutuzov – Russia’s...
