Napoleon invaded Russia with the largest army Europe had ever seen, composed of troops from France as well as Poland, Germany, Italy and several other allied states. The campaign that followed saw the ...

the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Military-Historical Society. Within the framework of the project dedicated to the events of the war of 1812 a number of battlefields in the Smolensk ...

his attempted encirclement of General Bennigsen's Russian army near the East Prussian town of Eylau led, instead, to one of the most notorious battles of the Napoleonic Wars, fought in terrible ...