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Napoleon Bonaparte and his staff, dressed in military uniforms, stand among rubble and watch flames rising from burning buildings in Moscow. Mikhail Kutuzov Infographic based on Charles Minard's graph depicting Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign, showing the dwindling size of his army as thick colored bands for advance and retreat routes, overlaid on a map with cities and rivers, and a temperature chart below marking extreme cold during the retreat.
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Napoleon I
An illustration by Vasily V. Vereshchagin of Napoleon I looking on as Moscow burns,...
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Mikhail Kutuzov
Mikhail Kutuzov, detail of a portrait by G. Dawe, 1829; in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
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Statistical map of Napoleon's Russian campaign of 1812
The size of Napoleon's army during the Russian campaign of 1812 is shown by the dwindling...
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