Napoleon went to Kaurakin, the Russian ambassador ... were so many that the Russians didn’t dare fight. They started to retreat because they didn't have a choice. They had to retreat.

On June 24, 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte launched the most audacious campaign of his career. With the most enormous army ever assembled in Europe, he made the fateful decision to invade Russia.

"Don’t you know your own history? That Napoleon Bonaparte once set out to conquer Russia with 631,000 soldiers and returned home with a beaten army of 20,000!?" "Does President Macron now want ...

Russia’s legendary cold winters are not what they used to be. Early snowdrops, mild January temperatures and a lack of ice on ...

when Napoleon's army was ravaged by the extreme cold during its retreat from Moscow, losing tens of thousands of men. Leonid Starkov, chief meteorologist of the Russian website Gismeteo ...

After Napoleon's lost most of his army in Russia, Britain ... His armies were now in retreat everywhere in Europe. "A year ago," he said, "the whole of Europe was marching alongside of us.