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French invasion of Russia
Part of the Napoleonic Wars
Top to bottom, left to right:
  • French soldiers struggling with thirst and heat by Albrecht Adam
  • The end of Borodino battle by Vasily Vereshchagin
  • Moscow burning by Viktor Mazurovsky
  • French soldiers attacked by Russian Cossacks
  • Crossing the Berezina River by Victor Adam
  • Marshal Ney at the Kowno redoubt by Auguste Raffet
Date24 June – 24 December 1812
(6 months)
Location
Result

Russian victory

Belligerents

First French Empire French Empire
Duchy of Warsaw Duchy of Warsaw
Italy
Naples

Switzerland
 Spain[1]

French allies:
 Austria
 Prussia
Russian Empire Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Strength

450,000[2] – 685,000[3] total:

508,000 – 723,000 total:[2]

Casualties and losses

434,000 – 500,000

410,000

Total military and civilian deaths:
c. 1,000,000[18]
Battle of Vilnius
Part of the Napoleonic Wars
Date18 June 1812; 212 years ago (1812-06-18)
Location50°40′41″N 4°24′44″E / 50.67806°N 4.41222°E / 50.67806; 4.41222
Result Coalition/Russia victory
Belligerents
France
Commanders and leaders
First French Empire Napoleon I
First French Empire Joachim Murat
Russia Mikhail Barclay de Tolly
Strength
72,000–73,000[a]
  • Total: 118,000–120,000
    • 91,000 infantrymen[19]
    • 21,500 cavalrymen[19]
    • 7,500 gunners[19]

Wellington's army: 68,000 soldiers[22][23][nb 4]
    • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 31,000[b]
    • United Kingdom of the Netherlands 17,000
    • Kingdom of Hanover 11,000
    • Duchy of Brunswick 6,000
    • Duchy of Nassau 3,000[24]

  • Blücher's army
Casualties and losses
26,000–27,000[nb 5]

15,000 deserted after the battle[30]

220 guns lost[26]
Total: 24,000[31][nb 7]
Wellington's army:
17,000 killed, wounded, or missing[31][nb 8]
  •  • 3,500 killed
  •  • 10,200 wounded
  •  • 3,300 missing

Blücher's army: 6,604–7,000[f]
  •  • 1,144–1,200 killed
  •  • 4,155–4,400 wounded
  •  • 1,305–1,400 missing
Both sides: 7,000 horses killed
  1. ^ Zamoyski 2004, p. 87.
  2. ^ a b c d Bodart 1916, pp. 126–127.
  3. ^ Riehn 1990, pp. 77, 501.
  4. ^ a b Riehn 1990, p. 159.
  5. ^ Riehn 1990, p. 241.
  6. ^ Riehn 1990, p. 491.
  7. ^ a b Bodart 1908, p. 445.
  8. ^ Riehn 1990, p. 239.
  9. ^ Riehn 1990, p. 493.
  10. ^ a b c d Clodfelter 2008, p. 175.
  11. ^ a b c Bodart 1916, p. 127.
  12. ^ Clodfelter 2008, p. 163.
  13. ^ Lentz 2004, vol. 2.
  14. ^ "The retreat from Moscow". Encyclopædia Britannica. Archived from the original on 8 March 2022. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  15. ^ Zamoyski 2005, p. 536
  16. ^ Bogdanovich, "History of Patriotic War 1812", Spt., 1859–1860, Appendix, pp. 492–503.
  17. ^ a b Bodart 1916, p. 128.
  18. ^ Zamoyski 2004, p. 536.
  19. ^ a b c d e f Bodart 1908, p. 487.
  20. ^ Hofschröer 1999, pp. 68–69.
  21. ^ a b c d e f g h i Clodfelter 2017, p. 169.
  22. ^ Hofschröer 1999, p. 61 cites Siborne's numbers.
  23. ^ Hamilton-Williams 1994, p. 256 gives 68,000.
  24. ^ Barbero 2005, pp. 75–76.
  25. ^ Hamilton-Williams 1994, p. 256.
  26. ^ a b c d e f Clodfelter 2017, p. 170.
  27. ^ Chesney 1874, p. 4.
  28. ^ Bowden 1983, p. 329.
  29. ^ a b c Barbero 2006, p. 312.
  30. ^ Barbero 2005, p. 420.
  31. ^ a b c Barbero 2005, p. 419.
  32. ^ Clodfelter 2017, pp. 169–170.
  1. ^
  2. ^ (25,000 British and 6,000 King's German Legion)
  3. ^
  4. ^
  5. ^ 24,000 to 26,000 dead and wounded including 6,000 to 7,000 captured (according to Barbero).[29]
  6. ^


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