Napoleon invaded Russia with the largest army Europe had ever seen, composed of troops from France as well as Poland, Germany ...

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

The invasion of Russia began in June 1812 and lasted six months. The French army started to invade Russia at several different points. The army that gathered with Napoleon was a force of roughly ...

History has taught us that Napoleon, in his invasion of Russia in 1812, marched into Moscow with his army largely intact and retreated only because the citizens of Moscow burned three-fourths of ...

Remains found in a mass grave outside Vilnius in Lithuania hold vital clues to the fate of Napoleon's Grand Army and the catastrophic retreat from Moscow in 1812. Paul Britten-Austin takes up the ...

During Napoleon’s winter campaign of 1812, the Russians and the French experienced the same freezing cold. However, it wasn’t the low temperatures that destroyed Napoleon’s Grande Armee as ...

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 ...

‘From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step,” Napoleon quipped when he reached Warsaw on Dec. 10, 1812, in retreat from snowy Moscow and the biggest military fiasco of his caree ...

On June 24, 1812, ignoring the advice of his closest advisors, Napoleon invaded Russia. Never in living memory had so large an army been assembled — Italians, Poles, German, French — more than ...

fought in September 1812. In the 1880s, Russian pride still glowed at the warm memory of Tsar Alexander I’s troops thrashing Napoleon’s army, although there was a certain level of rose-tinted ...

It was one of the greatest military catastrophes in history. Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 cost France more than 500,000 men and left the egotistical French emperor facing the beginning ...