Napoleon Bonaparte transformed Europe through a series of bold military campaigns and strategic conquests that expanded the ...

Napoleon Bonaparte began his conquest of Europe. By 1804, Bonaparte had made himself the emperor of France and was quickly amassing power. By 1812, Bonaparte controlled territory from Iberia to ...

on Midsummer Day in 1812, Napoleon crossed the River Niemen into what was then the Russian province of Lithuania, in a bid to conquer Russia with the biggest, most spectacular army Europe had ever ...

Having established control over almost all of Europe, Napoleon felt the Russian Empire threatened his plans for domination, and so he set about trying to put the country on its knees. In 1812 ...

The main reason why the 1812 war between Napoleon’s France and Russia began ... The “old” monarchies of Europe detested the republican system of government installed in France.

But the pro-Napoleon hopes of the summer of 1812 quickly turned to despair ... a chance to look at the condition of the population of Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.”— ...

The experiences of 1812 resulted in a better-trained Russian ... which he regards as the most disciplined in Europe, prevented Napoleon from getting food or rest as he retreated from Moscow.

On June 24, 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte, the master of continental Europe, led nearly half a million men into the depths of Russia to enforce his will upon Czar Alexander I. With greatly inferior ...

on Midsummer Day in 1812, Napoleon crossed the River Niemen into what was then the Russian province of Lithuania, in a bid to conquer Russia with the biggest, most spectacular army Europe had ever ...