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10 sie 2021 · A week after the capture of Smolensk, Napoleon decided to push on towards Moscow. In response, the Russian commander General Mikhail Kutuzov drew up some 120,000 Russian troops at Borodino, halting the roughly 130,000 advancing French just west of Moscow.
22 mar 2019 · The Frenchman Charles-Joseph Minard’s figurative maps of the French army’s loss during Napoleon’s campaign against Russia in 1812-13 is one of the field’s classics. Research on data visualization. Graphs, charts and colorful maps.
26 cze 2024 · This map of Europe in 1812 depicts the continent during the height of French power during the Napoleonic Wars. The boundaries and political entities shown are reflective of the territorial changes brought about by Napoleon Bonaparte’s conquests and alliances.
5 cze 2014 · The book includes more than 100 full-color illustrations inspired by graphic innovator Charles Minard’s classic flow line map of Napoleon’s disastrous invasion of Russia.
French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte's Grande Armée occupied Moscow from 14 September to 19 October 1812 during the Napoleonic Wars. It marked the summit of the French invasion of Russia . During the occupation, which lasted 36 days, the city was devastated by fire and looted by both Russian peasants and the French.
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 ...
Shows invasion "Route of Napoleon to Moscow" (Königsberg to Moscow) and route of "Retreat from Moscow". Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.