The Battle of Borodino

Napoleon led about 450 thousand men into russia in june of 18 12. They advanced and they advanced, but they did not draw the russians into a fight until september of 18 12 with the battle of borodino. Over the course of these catastrophic six months, something like two million soldiers and civilians died. But the russian army had not been conquered. Napoleon had not bent them to his will. Instead, russia became the spring board from which the final campaigns to defeat napoleon sprang. Thanks to russia's great achievement of endurance, alexander was now one of the principal pillars of anti napoleon coalition. And just as napoleon had