countries under French control in 1812. 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 ...

French forces in Spain were severely overstretched, as Napoleon withdrew the best troops for his invasion of Russia. Wellington saw an opportunity to strike. First he secured the strategic ...

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 ...

Napoleon decided it was time to teach the young Alexander a lesson. The French invasion of Russia in 1812 was an unmitigated disaster. The wily Russian commander Mikhail Kutuzov tried to avoid ...

After a failed invasion of Moscow, the French army retreated for 200 miles ... leading Bonaparte to worry about possible allyship between the two countries. In June 1812, Bonaparte invaded Russia, ...

In 1812, the French empire had reached its maximum size ... The first major battle of the invasion of Russia wouldn't take place until a month into the operation. The Battle of Smolensk, a town 230 ...