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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 ...
On the Russian side, 300,000 deaths were reported, including 175,000 who died in combat, without counting the thousands of devastated villages, and a capital reduced to ashes. The country thus paid a heavy price for its freedom.
The French lost nearly 15,000 killed and wounded in the actions of August 16–19. Meanwhile on August 17, 1812, Laurent, marquis de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr, replaced Nicolas-Charles Oudinot on Napoleon’s left flank and defeated Wittgenstein at Polotsk. A few days later Schwarzenberg won a success at Gorodechno.
According to Minard, during the war’s bloody 197 days, the strength of Napoleon’s forces dwindled from 422,000 all the way down to 10,000. The map showing the French army’s losses in manpower...
24 sie 2023 · Napoleon 's Invasion of Russia, also known as the Second Polish War or, in Russia, as the Patriotic War of 1812, was a campaign undertaken by French Emperor Napoleon I (r. 1804-1814; 1815) and his 615,000-man Grande Armée against the Russian Empire.
Few campaigns in the history of warfare have been impacted by poor logistics, weather and the resulting attrition as much as the ill-fated invasion of Russia by Emperor Napoleon in 1812. His troops and their horses succumbed to extremes of heat and cold, incessant marching, illnesses, warfare at close-quarters and brutal guerrilla tactics.
5 sie 2015 · In his opinion, the retreating Russian army left in Moscow from 10,000 to 15,000 sick and wounded soldiers, of which at least 8,000 died or were taken prisoner. Some of the dead (about 1,000 people) were victims of fire, initiated by Moscow authorities headed by Governor-General F. V. Rostopchin.
