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"I wage war against your Majesty without animosity; a note from you before or after the last battle would have stopped my march, and I should even have liked to have sacrificed the advantage of entering Moscow.
Let destiny be accomplished. —Napoleon Bonaparte, quoted in Theodore Ayrault Dodge, Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia. Rarely, if ever, has so murderous a war been fought over such flimsy issues. —J. Christopher Herold, The Age of Napoleon. Man of Destiny.
Napoleon, whose march from Vilnius to Vitsyebsk had failed to separate the two Russian armies, now turned southeastward, crossing the Dnieper in the night of August 13–14, 1812. On August 14 an engagement at Krasnoe (Krasny) left Barclay in no doubt of his intentions.
According to French statesman and historian Adolphe Thiers (1845), Napoleon said in 1804, after the failure of a royalist plot against his life: “They seek to destroy the Revolution by attacking my person: I will defend it, for I am the Revolution.”
10 lip 2024 · Napoleon’s invasion of Russia and the terrible retreat from Moscow were a military epic and a human tragedy on a colossal scale – history’s first example of total war. But the campaign of 1812 was not just a war on Russia: it was the climax of a long duel between two emperors for supremacy in Europe
The French invasion of Russia, also known as the Russian campaign (French: Campagne de Russie), the Second Polish War, and in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 (Russian: Оте́чественная война́ 1812 го́да, romanized: Otéchestvennaya voyná 1812 góda), was initiated by Napoleon with the aim of compelling the Russian ...
Autor: Stefan Treugutt, Napoleon Bonaparte jako bohater polskiego romantyzmu (1974) O Napoleonie, z ukochanych najukochańszym, rozprawiał jak natchniony poeta. Zdawało się, że każdej chwili zakrzyknie gromko: „Niech żyje Cesarz!” – i rzuci się w bój, krwawy szatan.
