When Russia resumed trading with England, Napoleon prepared to invade Russia. Napoleon amassed an army of 600,000, the largest army Europe had ever seen. After a failed invasion of Moscow, the French ...

In the winter of 1812, Napoleon’s once-mighty army left Russia battered, frostbitten, and starving. The infamous retreat claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, but until recently, no one could say ...

By 1812, Napoleon was all powerful. Nearly all of Europe was under his control. He had succeeded in forbidding most of the continent from trading with Britain in an effort to bring the island nation ...

The Battle of Berezina in 1812 was a significant moment in Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's aborted campaign against Tsarist ...