. Napoleon now found himself 500 miles from friendly territory, outnumbered, poorly supplied, and with winter approaching. What followed was one of the most harrowing and disastrous events in military ...

Near the end of his reign, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led an army of over half a million men in an invasion of Russia in 1812. Six months later, after the army was forced to retreat, an ...

Napoleon’s withdrawal from Russia in 1812 was one of history’s most disastrous retreats. New research bolsters the theory that diseases made the calamitous situation even worse. Researchers in France ...

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NAPOLEON’S RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN (306 pp.)—Philippe-Paul de Ségur—Hough-ion Mifflin ($5). Count de Ségur’s famed diary of Napoleon’s Russian campaign is not just another book about Bonaparte; it is the ...

In 1812, Napoleon took the greatest risk of his military career. His conquest of continental Europe had resulted in every major power having been defeated by his military might. But one conquest ...