her youngest child. Born Elisabeth Magdalena Freiin von Lerchenfeld in Kowno, Imperial Russia (now Kaunas, Lithuania), in 1913, she was known by her...
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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...
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Cossacks Crossing the Berezina River by Victor Adam Marshal Ney at the Kowno redoubt by Auguste Raffet Belligerents French Empire Kingdom of Poland Duchy...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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disease. Military brothels were introduced to combat disease; the city of Kowno emphasized proper educational use of contraceptives such as condoms, encouraged...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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Napoleon Baniewicz and his wife Maria Baniewicz (born Maria Citowiczówna) in Kowno (today Kaunas, Lithuania), then part of the Russian Empire. His father was...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Groß-Rosen, Gurs, Hartheim, Izbica, Jasenovac, Jungfernhof, Kaiserwald, Kielce, Kowno, Łagów, Litzmannstadt, Lublin, Majdanek, Maly Trostinec, Mauthausen, Minsk...
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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...
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Ney at Kowno in December 1812, painting by Auguste Raffet in the Louvre...
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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...
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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...
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1923 Feldrabbiner in the German Army, opened a Jewish school in occupied Kowno during the war Willi Rosenstein 1892 1949 Leutnant, Fighter pilot in World...
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