Napoleon now found himself 500 miles from friendly territory, outnumbered, poorly supplied, and with winter approaching. What followed was one of the most harrowing and disastrous events in military ...

On June 24, 1812, ignoring the advice of his closest ... The next day they withdrew, leaving Napoleon proclaiming victory. Moscow was at his mercy, but the Russians refused to make peace.

At his command, Napoleon had 130,000 soldiers with whom to attack the Russian defenders, who numbered around 120,000. The Battle of Borodino began at dawn on September 7, 1812. A barrage from 102 ...

When the blaze in Moscow subsided on September 18, 1812, the French—who had traveled ... even depict French emperor and military commander Napoleon Bonaparte being hanged Sarah Kuta Nobody ...

A Russian knight hacks at a serpent depicting ... “Second Patriotic War” as World War I was known in Russia. (Napoleon’s 1812 invasion was Russia’s first “patriotic war.”) ...

2. Stalin used War and Peace as a propaganda tool during WWII Russia’s victory over Napoleon in 1812 speaks so strongly to the Russian national psyche that when Hitler attacked the Soviet Union ...