In June 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte led 685,000 men—the largest army ever assembled in European history—across the Niemen River ...
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The Napoleonic Wars in 1 Minute

In one minute, we follow Napoleon’s meteoric rise and the wars that reshaped Europe. Using Google Earth, we trace his victories from Austerlitz to Jena, the costly invasion of Russia, and his final ...
In 1812, the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led a doomed army on a disastrous retreat from Russia. With food scarce, winter approaching and diseases running rampant, hundreds of thousands of ...