They were fighting because their king was allied to Napoleon. At last, with summer ending, the Russians turned and faced their enemy at the crossroads village of Borodino. Moscow, the holy city of ...

Volume 2 begins with Napoleon's arrival in Moscow on 14 September 1812. The remainder of the book charts the events of the army's retreat, details the conditions endured and the lives lost in the ...

The bodies of French and Russian soldiers who died during Napoleon's retreat from Moscow have been laid to rest at a ceremony in western Russia. Along with the 120 soldiers, three women and three ...

It was to be Napoleon Bonapartes greatest adventure an ... the savages of winter snows To this day the infamous retreat from Moscow epitomises the suffering of ordinary soldiers This documentary ...

Only a fraction of Napoleon's Grande Armée made it back to France A Russian historian has come up with a new theory about the legend that the French Emperor Napoleon hid wagonloads of stolen ...