The bodies included 120 soldiers who fought the 1812 Battle of Vyazma, wherein Russian Empire forces defeated Napoleon’s retreating army after the failed invasion of Moscow in November 1812.

The years from 1812 to 1821 mark the dramatic decline and eventual fall of Napoleon Bonaparte’s empire. This video explores the critical period starting with the disastrous Russian campaign of ...

Napoleon went to Kaurakin, the Russian ambassador, ... French — more than 600,000 men from every corner of his empire. Napoleon prophesied the war would be over in twenty days. ...

Discovered on the site of a former Soviet military base, the grave has begun to reveal secrets about a tragic episode in Europe's military history -- Napoleon's ill-fated 1812 Russian campaign ...

ANDERMATT /Switzerland/, September 24. /TASS corr. Konstantin Pribytkov/. A memorial ceremony in honor of the 219th anniversary of Russian General Alexander Suvorov’s march through the Alps took ...