Napoleon’s Greatest Failure: A Winter Campaign In Russia | The Man Who Would Rule Europe | Timeline

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With the Peninsular War still raging, Napoleon made a fateful decision – in 1812, the Grand Armee began an invasion of Russia. Nothing could have prepared then for what lay ahead as they marched towards Moscow and little did they know that of the half a million men who crossed the Russian border, fewer than fifty thousand would ever see their homeland again.

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