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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 ...
Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (Russian: Михаил Николаевич Тухачевский, romanized: Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevskiy, IPA: [tʊxɐˈtɕefskʲɪj]; 16 February [O.S. 4 February] 1893 – 12 June 1937), nicknamed the Red Napoleon, [1] was a Soviet general who was prominent between 1918 and 1937 as a military officer and theoretician.
A week of close escapes on the part of the Russian army followed. Napoleon and Kutuzov even slept on the same bed in the manor of Bolshiye Vyazyomy just one night apart, as the French chased the Russians down. Napoleon and his army entered Moscow on 14 September. To Napoleon's surprise, Kutuzov had abandoned the city, and it fell without a fight.
From April 1812, Kurakin started to demand passport for his recall and return, citing French Foreign Minister Hugues-Bernard Maret's avoidance to discuss the future Franco-Russian agreement on disputed matters proposed by Napoleon earlier in February. Napoleon put the blame on Russia's refusal to comply with the Treaty of Tilsit and of Erfurt.
Refer to Lenin Collected Works, vol. 35, "Recorded Speeches" Record ⓘ 17: А-0291: 5th session / Tsentropechat: Concessions and the development of capitalism: 25-Apr-1921: Refer to Lenin Collected Works, vol. 35, "Recorded Speeches" Record ⓘ 18: А-0292: 5th session / Tsentropechat: Non-party men and Soviet Power: 25-Apr-1921: Russian ...
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Napoleon with the French Grande Armée began his invasion of Russia on 24 June 1812 by crossing the Niemen. [17] As his Russian army was outnumbered by far, Mikhail Bogdanovich Barclay de Tolly successfully used a "delaying operation", defined as an operation in which a force under pressure trades space for time by slowing down the enemy's momentum and inflicting maximum damage on the enemy ...
President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that the Russian people are “united as never before,” seeking to project confidence in the wake of a short-lived revolt while participating in a meeting ...