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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 ...
It is recommended to name the SVG file “Europe 1812 map en.svg ... Europe in 1812. Political situation before Napoleon's Russian Campaign. ... – Map "L'apogée de ...
The Grande Armée crossing the Niemen by Waterloo Clark Napoleon's Hill or Jiesia mound from the other bank of the Niemen river Anonymous, the Grande Armée crossing the river Napoleon's army crossing the Niemen river, starting on 24 June [O.S. 12 June (Julian Calendar)] 1812 [1] French Army crossing Nieman River 1812 by Auguste Raffet Italian corps of Eugène de Beauharnais crossing the ...
The strategic situation in Europe in February 1809 The French Empire in 1812 at its greatest extent. Austria achieved some initial victories against the thinly spread army of Marshal Berthier. Napoleon left Berthier with only 170,000 men to defend France's entire eastern frontier (in the 1790s, 800,000 men had carried out the same task, but ...
All maps by Alphathon and based upon Blank map of Europe.svg unless otherwise stated. Deutsch: Diese Karte ist Teil einer Serie historischer politischer Europakarten. Solange nicht anders angegeben, wurden alle Karten durch Alphathon auf Basis von Blank map of Europe.svg erstellt, sofern nicht anders angegeben.
1804–1813 Russo-Persian War; 1806–1812 Russo-Ottoman War; 1808–1809 Finnish War; 1809 Polish–Austrian War; 1815–1817 Second Serbian Uprising; 1817–1864 Russian conquest of the Caucasus; 1821–1829 Greek War of Independence; 1821 Wallachian uprising; 1823 French invasion of Spain; 1826–1828 Russo-Persian War; 1827 War of the ...
Napoleon in Russia: The Sociocultural History of War and Occupation. The Era of 1812. Moscow: ROSSPEN. p. 431. ISBN 978-5-8243-2221-7. Zemtsov, Vladimir Nikolaevich. Napoleon and the Fire of Moscow // Patriotic War of 1812. Sources. Monuments. Problems. pp. 152–162; Zemtsov, Vladimir Nikolaevich (15 August 2015). Glantz, David (ed.).
In the War of the Sixth Coalition (French: Guerre de la Sixième Coalition) (December 1812 – May 1814), sometimes known in Germany as the Wars of Liberation (German: Befreiungskriege), a coalition of Austria, Prussia, Russia, Spain, Great Britain, Portugal, Sweden, Sardinia, and a number of German States defeated France and drove Napoleon into exile on Elba.