In 1812 Napoleon invaded Russia with the largest army Europe had ever seen, composed of troops from France as well as Poland, Germany, Italy and several other allied states. The campaign that followed ...

In 1812 Napoleon invaded Russia with the largest army Europe had ever seen. But after winning a costly victory at Borodino and occupying Moscow, Napoleon's invitation to Russian Emperor Alexander to ...

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 ...

It was to be Napoleon Bonapartes greatest adventure an invasion of Russia with an army of more than 650000 men the largest the world had yet seen The Emperors irresistible progress into the vast ...

Napoleon's disastrous retreat from Moscow, in 1812, marked the end of his invasion of Russia. His vast army had made rapid advances, capturing Moscow, but never secured a decisive victory.

The military campaign ended in a disastrous retreat from Moscow in 1812. Napoleon's Grande Armée (Great Army) of 400,000 men was thought to be unbeatable and he himself had anticipated a rapid ...

This story took place in the Fall of 1812, during the chaotic retreat of the ‘Great Army’ from Russia. Prince Eugène de Beauharnais, the son of Napoleon's first wife Josephine, commanded the ...

Leggiere traces the desperate Prussian struggle against the new French armies raised by Napoleon after the disaster of 1812, and their equally decisive efforts to keep their exhausted Russian allies ...

They were the most feared men in Napoleon’s army ... The Imperial Guard grew from 8,000 in 1805 to 80,000 in 1812. Over 60,000 marched into Russia; few returned.

Volume 2 begins with Napoleon's arrival in Moscow on 14 September 1812. The remainder of the book charts the events of the army's retreat, details the conditions endured and the lives lost in the ...