The Imperial Russian Army in June 1812 consisted of three main armies and other military formations. The Commander in Chief of the Army was Emperor Alexander...
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Russie) and in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 (Russian: Оте́чественная война́ 1812 го́да, romanized: Otéchestvennaya voyná 1812 góda), was initiated...
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The Battle of Borodino (Russian pronunciation: [bərədʲɪˈno]) took place near the village of Borodino on 7 September [O.S. 26 August] 1812 during Napoleon's...
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kind of war without major battles weakened the French army at its most vulnerable point: military logistics. On 19 October 1812 the French army, lacking...
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1812, three weeks later. The last major battle had been the Battle of Tarutino on 18 October 1812, that was won by the Russian army. A great part of the...
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Battle of Smolensk was the first major battle of the French invasion of Russia. It took place on 16–18 August 1812 and involved about 45,000 men of the...
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The Battle of (the) Berezina (or Beresina) took place from 26 to 29 November 1812, between Napoleon's Grande Armée and the Imperial Russian Army under...
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battle of the French invasion of Russia Russian Army order of battle (1812) Timeline of the Finnish War Though the Russians inflicted significant casualties...
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armed land force of the Russian Empire, active from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was organized into a standing army and a state militia...
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stages of the Russian campaign, Emperor Napoleon I sought to force the Russian army to commit the bulk of its forces to a major battle, in order to defeat...
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The Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812) between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire was one of the Russo-Turkish Wars. Russia prevailed, but both sides...
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The Battle of Krasnoi (at Krasny or Krasnoe) unfolded from 15 to 18 November 1812 marking a critical episode in Napoleon's arduous retreat from Moscow...
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Kowno 1 The Battle of Tarutino (Russian: Тарутинское сражение) was a part of Napoleon's invasion of Russia. In the battle, Russian troops under the...
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Army]. Отечественная война 1812. Энциклопедия [Patriotic War of 1812: Encyclopedia] (in Russian). Moscow: ROSSPEN. p. 261. ISBN 582430324X. Russian Army...
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Pyotr Bagration (category Imperial Russian Army generals)
defense in the Battle of Schöngrabern (November 1805) that allowed Russian forces to withdraw and unite with the main Russian army of Mikhail Kutuzov...
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This is the order of battle of the French invasion of Russia. Napoleon organized the Grande Armée the largest army assembled up to that point in European...
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The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in North America. It began when the United States...
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The Russian–German Legion was a military unit set up in 1812 by the banished Graf Peter of Oldenburg on the instigation of Tsar Alexander I of Russia. Its...
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Russian Revolution of 1917 Foreign policy of the Russian Empire Imperial Russian Army Russian Army order of battle (1812) Riasanovsky and Steinberg, pp. 211–212...
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The Battle of Vyazma (3 November 1812; 22 October by OS), occurred at the beginning of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. In this encounter a Russian force...
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the Battle of the Nations, was fought from 16 to 19 October 1813 at Leipzig, Saxony. The Coalition armies of Austria, Prussia, Sweden, and Russia, led...
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Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (category Recipients of the Order of St. George of the First Degree)
the Battle of Pułtusk that same year. He was wounded at the Battle of Eylau in 1807 while his troops were covering the retreat of the Russian army. Because...
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Grande Armée (redirect from Grand Army)
invasion of Russia in 1812, after which it never recovered its strategic superiority and ended in total defeat for Napoleonic France by the Peace of Paris...
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Timeline of the War of 1812 is a chronology of the War of 1812, including a list of battles. The War of 1812 was fought in four major theaters: the Atlantic...
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list of orders of battle, which list the known military units that were located within the field of operations for a battle or campaign. The battles are...
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Battle of Vilnius may refer to: Siege of Vilnius (1390), unsuccesful siege by the Teutonic Order Battle of Vilnius (1655), Russia captures the city during...
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Russian forces fell back, destroying everything potentially of use to the invaders until giving battle at Borodino (7 September) where the two armies...
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began moving towards Riga. By mid July 1812, the Riga garrison had grown to around 14,000 troops. The Russian Army of Finland commanded by Fabian Steinheil...
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Imperial Russian Army under the command of Levin August von Bennigsen near the town of Preussisch Eylau in East Prussia. Late in the battle, the Russians received...
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Christoph Gamper, Imperial Russian cavalry commander during the Patriotic War of 1812 Sub-lieutenant Afrikan Spir (Battle of Malakoff, 1855) Baron Roman...
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