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In June 1812 the Grande Armée crossed the Niemen to force Tsar Alexander I to respect the Continental Blockade. The Russians fell back and Napoleon reached Moscow in September. Cold, hunger and disease marked the winter retreat. It destroyed most of the army.
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1812
July 1812, the start of the Russian campaign. Napoleon marched on Vitebsk to outflank Barclay de Tolly's army, but Ostermann-Tolstoy's rearguard slowed the vanguard of Murat, Ney and Prince Eugène.
Photo: MaratL (Public domain)
1812
On 23 July 1812, during the Russian campaign, the Grande Armée needed to cross the Dnieper, and Mogilev was its only crossing. Bagration wanted to push it back or delay it before falling back on Smolensk.
Photo: Nikolai Samokysh (Public domain)
1812
On 19 August 1812, two days after Smolensk, Barclay de Tolly's Russian army is retreating along the Moscow road. Marshal Ney attacks it head-on: part of the Russian troops, scattered in wooded and marshy ground, risk being cut off.
Photo: Unknown author (Public domain)
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