1. Napoleon - Russian invasion 1812
Even before Napoleon had reached Moscow almost one third or his troops and horses were dead or hospitalized due to starvation, disease and exhaustion. ... When the campaign first left France there was a drought " making it a dry, dusty march to Moscow. ... In the final weeks of the retreat from Moscow, the soldiers flooded into Vilna, the French-occupied capital of Lithuania, they had travelled in the dreadful cold. ... The mighty French army upon reaching Moscow were devastated to find the city deserted. ... This depression, natural in a defeated army, was remarkable after a decisive ...
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