Kovno, the traditional Slavicized form of its name. The Polish name is Kowno [ˈkɔvnɔ]; the Belarusian name is Koўна, Koŭna [ˈkɔu̯na]. An earlier Russian...

her youngest child. Born Elisabeth Magdalena Freiin von Lerchenfeld in Kowno, Imperial Russia (now Kaunas, Lithuania), in 1913, she was known by her...

each other to assess losses. Caused by this correction Napoleon started at Kowno with ≈340,000 men and not with ≈422,000 according to Minard's map. The number...

Cossacks Crossing the Berezina River by Victor Adam Marshal Ney at the Kowno redoubt by Auguste Raffet Belligerents French Empire Kingdom of Poland Duchy...

Berezina 8 Maloyaroslavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The Battle of Maloyaroslavets took place on 24 October 1812 as part...

Berezina 8 Maloyaroslavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The Battle of Smolensk was the first major battle of the French invasion...

consisted of paper money issued on 4 April 1918 by the Darlehnskasse in Kowno (Kaunas) and was equal to the German Papiermark. The Ostmark circulated...

Marshal Ney at the Kowno redoubt by Raffet...

8 Maloyaro- slavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The Battle of Shevardino took place on 5 September 1812 (24 August...

Warsaw 9 Berezina 8 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The Battle of Tarutino (‹See Tfd›Russian: Тарутинское сражение) was...

Lithuania this was achieved for the first time by Partisan activities in Kowno. To our surprise it was not easy at first to set in motion an extensive...

disease. Military brothels were introduced to combat disease; the city of Kowno emphasized proper educational use of contraceptives such as condoms, encouraged...

Berezina 8 Maloyaroslavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte's Grande Armée occupied Moscow from...

Berezina 8 Maloyaroslavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The Battle of (the) Berezina (or Beresina) took place from 26 to 29...

completed a Yeshiva and was self-educated. He taught German and French in Kowno and later worked as a translator at a railway bridge construction for a...

SS Dwinsk (1897) SS Estonia (1889) SS Grodno (1893) SS Korea (1899) SS Kowno (1892) SS Kursk (1910) SS Lituania (1889) SS Livonia (1902) SS Russia (1908)...

Napoleon Baniewicz and his wife Maria Baniewicz (born Maria Citowiczówna) in Kowno (today Kaunas, Lithuania), then part of the Russian Empire. His father was...

8 Maloyaro- slavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The Battle of Wolkowisk (Volkovysk) took place 14–16 November 1812...

Berezina 8 Maloyaroslavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The Siege of Riga was a military operation during the Napoleonic Wars...

Berezina 8 Maloyaroslavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The Battle of Borodino (Russian pronunciation: [bərədʲɪˈno]) took place...

8 Maloyaro- slavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The Battle of Mesothen took place from 26–30 September to 1 October...

8 Maloyaro- slavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The Battle of Liaskowa (or Lyakhovo) took place 9 November 1812 near...

in love with a young Polish noble girl, the daughter of the Voivode of Kowno, but after a couple of meetings (edging into her house and in church), he...

Groß-Rosen, Gurs, Hartheim, Izbica, Jasenovac, Jungfernhof, Kaiserwald, Kielce, Kowno, Łagów, Litzmannstadt, Lublin, Majdanek, Maly Trostinec, Mauthausen, Minsk...

Ney at Kowno in December 1812, painting by Auguste Raffet in the Louvre...

8 Maloyaro- slavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The Bagration flèches (‹See Tfd›Russian: багратионовы флеши) are three...

Berezina 8 Maloyaro- slavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The First Battle of Krasnoi was fought on 14 August between Ney's French...

8 Maloyaro- slavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The Battle of Mir took place on 9 and 10 July 1812 during Napoleon's...

8 Maloyaro- slavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The Battle of Borisov took place on 21 November 1812, between parts...

Berezina 8 Maloyaro- slavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The Battle of Valutino (also called the battle of Lubino) took place...