What was it fought over? Why did Napoleon risk invading Russia? And who devised the plan of destroying the Great Army inside Russian territory? In this article, we do not go into the military ...

and the Grande Armée was decimated," with up to 500,000 French dead, the researchers wrote in the study.The campaign ended with the Battle of Berezina in November 1812. But the majority of the ...

MINSK, Belarus – Belarus held a burial ceremony Friday for 110 Napoleonic soldiers who died in a major battle in 1812 against the Russian army. Tens of thousands of French troops died in ...

What did Russian soldiers eat during the French invasion of 1812? Paradoxically, the war not only whipped up a patriotic revival of traditional Russian fare, but introduced Russia to new French ...

Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 cost France more than 500,000 men and left the egotistical French emperor facing the beginning of the end of his reign. Now, a letter Napoleon wrote from ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In a battle against Russia more than 200 years ago, a French soldier in Napoleon's Grande ...