Napoleon In Russia Map
About this game napoleons invasion of russia began on 24 june 1812 when the grande armée crossed the neman river to engage and attempt to defeat the russian army.
Napoleon in russia map. By the time of the invasion of russia napoleon s empire stretched far beyond france. The cavalry alone made up 80 000 an enormous mounted force. The map of napoleon s russian campaign minard is best known for his cartographic depiction of numerical data on a map of napoleon s disastrous losses suffered during the russian campaign of 1812 in french carte figurative des pertes successives en hommes de l armée française dans la campagne de russie 1812 1813. The retreat information is correlated with a temperature scale shown along the lower portion of the map.
This map drawn by french engineer charles joseph minard shows napoleon s disastrous invasion of russia in 1812 three years before the battle of waterloo. The french invasion of russia known in russia as the patriotic war of 1812 russian. Campagne de russie began on 24 june 1812 when napoleon s grande armée crossed the neman river in an attempt to engage and defeat the russian army. The size of napoleon s army is shown by the dwindling width of the lines of advance green and retreat gold.
But in the end the russian army always managed to slip away until finally there was the great battle of and french victory at the battle of. However with the reconquered russian lands poland would have recovered all of her former domains. Map of napoleon s russia campaign 1812 graph of napoleon s invasion of russian in 1812. In 1812 napoleon proclaimed second polish war but against expectations of poles that gave him 100 000 fine soldiers avoided any concessions toward poland having in mind further negotations with russia.
Although the french emperor was able to raise another massive army this. Therefore he was able to recruit soldiers from a whole host of conquered territories. Buy napoleon in russia. Less well known is the other work by charles joseph minard.
Yale professor edward tufte made this graphic a very celebrated model of infographics the minard map of napoleon s army in russia was on the cover of his the visual display of quantitative information by now its known to pretty much anyone with an interest in the subject. Emboldened by the defeat austria prussia and sweden re joined russia and great britain in the fight against napoleon. Click here to see a larger version. Under napoleon however the independent from russia polish duchy of warsaw was created and russia s influence in eastern europe and the balkans was seriously challenged.
Napoleon hoped to compel the emperor of all russia alexander i to cease trading with british merchants through. The orange and black columns crossing the map show the french grande armée on its march to and from moscow. The grande armée was massive with over 600 000 troops. Napoleons invasion of russia began on 24 june 1812 when the grande armée crossed the neman river to engage and attempt to defeat the russian army.
The french army initially advanced rapidly into russia winning a number of minor engagements and even a major battle at smolensk in august. Otechestvennaya voyna 1812 goda and in france as the russian campaign french. This incredible number of soldiers was mustered even though french troops were busy fighting the british portuguese and spanish in the iberian peninsula. The french army initially advanced rapidly into russia winning a number of minor engagements and even a major battle at smolensk in august.
But in the end the russian army always managed to slip away until finally there was the. отечественная война 1812 года romanized.