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Original - Charles Minard's 1869 chart details the losses of men, the position of the army, and the freezing temperatures on Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign of 1812. Created in an effort to show the horrors of war, the graph "defies the pen of the historian in its brutal eloquence." Reason
Minard's diagram of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, using the feature now named after Sankey. One of the most famous Sankey diagrams is Charles Minard's Map of Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812. [5] It is a flow map, overlaying a Sankey diagram onto a geographical map. It was created in 1869, predating Sankey's first Sankey diagram of 1898.
The military machine Napoleon the artilleryman had created was perfectly suited to fight short, violent campaigns, but whenever a long-term sustained effort was in the offing, it tended to expose feet of clay. [...] In the end, the logistics of the French military machine proved wholly inadequate. The experiences of short campaigns had left the French supply services completed unprepared for ...
Charles Minard's map of Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign of 1812. The graphic is notable for its representation in two dimensions of six types of data: the number of Napoleon's troops; distance; temperature; the latitude and longitude; direction of travel; and location relative to specific dates. [5]
Information design, Scientific visualization, French invasion of Russia (1812), Information graphics, Victory disease, Russian Winter, Battle of Berezina, Charles Joseph Minard Creator Charles Joseph Minard. Support as nominator Kla’quot (talk | contribs) 07:35, 28 August 2007 (UTC) Oppose The graphic is, of course, worthy of an FP. But this ...
The numbers on this chart have 422,000 crossing the Neman with Napoleon, 22,000 taking a side trip early on in the campaign, 100,000 surviving the battles en route to Moscow and returning from there; only 4,000 survive the march back, to be joined by 6,000 that survived that initial 22,000 in the feint attack northward; in the end, only 10,000 ...
Napoleon decided then to wage war on Russia, in order to get her back as a French ally. In June 1812, the French invaded Russia on Napoleon's orders, making their way east towards Moscow, suffering large losses caused by lack of food, desertion, disease, exhaustion and battles. Napoleon eventually "conquered" Moscow, only to see the deserted ...
The treaty ended Russia's conflict with France; Napoleon promised to aid Russia in conflicts with the Ottoman Empire. 16 November: Alexander demanded that Sweden close the Baltic Sea to British warships. 1808: 21 February: Finnish War: Russian troops crossed the Swedish border and captured Hämeenlinna. 1809: 29 March