Napoleon gathered an army of 600,000 men to invade Russia and work their way toward Moscow. Napoleon's army was the largest that Europe had ever seen. Of the 600,000 men, only half of them were ...

Napoleon’s edict barring trade with Great Britain was ruining the Russian economy. Tensions quickly escalated; every attempt to negotiate failed.

After Napoleon destroyed the Russian army at Austerlitz in 1805 and drove the Russians out of Poland, it was only a matter of time before another showdown occurred between the two powers.

Over 600,000 men marched east—few returned. Napoleon’s invasion of Russia was meant to crush resistance, but instead, it shattered the Grande Armée.

Napoleon in Burning Moscow, Adam Albrecht, 1841 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. By the time Napoleon Bonaparte and his men reached Moscow on September 14, 1812, an eerie quiet had descended ...

The Russian commanders decided to abandon Moscow after the high army casualties suffered at the Battle of Borodino. When on September 14 Napoleon entered the city, he found it almost completely ...

Moscow turned out to be a trap for Napoleon, where his army - through forced inaction, drunkenness and looting - began to quickly lose morale.

Remains found in a mass grave outside Vilnius in Lithuania hold vital clues to the fate of Napoleon's Grand Army and the catastrophic retreat from Moscow in 1812. Paul Britten-Austin takes up the ...

On Sept. 14 Moscow fell to Napoleon, and he sent peace overtures to Alexander, thinking the czar had no option but to negotiate. The Russians stalled and hinted but never gave a firm answer, ...

Napoleon wasted five weeks in Moscow expecting the tsar to come to terms. When the Grande Armée finally started to withdraw to central Europe on October 19, the soldiers were still wearing their ...

The remains of General Charles-Étienne Gudin, one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s most valued military commanders, have been uncovered in Smolensk, Russia by a team of French and Russian archaeologists.

Allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday warned French President Emmanuel Macron that any troops he sends to Ukraine would meet the same end as Napoleon Bonaparte's Grande Armee ...