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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 maj 2013 · [Click on map to see full size version] The chart above also tells the story of a war: Napoleon’s Russian campaign of 1812. It was drawn half a century afterwards by Charles Joseph Minard, a French civil engineer who worked on dams, canals and bridges.
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 ...
8 cze 2014 · Angry at Czar Alexander’s decision, Napoleon gathers a massive army of over 400,000 to attack Russia in June of the year 1812. While Russia’s troops are not as numerous as France’s, Russia has a plan.
Inwazja na Rosję (1812) lub wojna 1812 roku – wojna I Cesarstwa Francuskiego i jego sojuszników z Imperium Rosyjskim trwająca od 24 czerwca do 25 grudnia 1812 roku. Celem inwazji Napoleona na Rosję było utrzymanie blokady kontynentalnej Wielkiej Brytanii , lecz wojna znacznie przyczyniła się do losu wojen napoleońskich i przyszłej ...
In order to tell the tragic tale” of Napoleon’s crushing defeat “in a single image,” Minard imagined the event as a dynamic physical structure. Minard’s chart shows six types of information: geography, time, temperature, the course and direction of the army’s movement, and the number of troops ...
30 maj 2013 · Napoleon, who believed the Russians to have retreated further back than they in actual fact had, remained away from the frontline, installed in Smolensk since 16 August. In the end, the lack of concerted push from the French saved the Russian army.
