On September 7, 1812, over 250,000 men clashed near Moscow in a single day of bloodshed. The result? A brutal “victory” that ...

You know it’s easy to start a war but it’s very difficult to finish one." On June 24, 1812, ignoring the advice of his closest advisors, Napoleon invaded Russia. Never in living memory had so ...

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Desperate to defeat Napoleon, Britain restricted U.S ... s identity is at stake,” says Wood, who calls 1812 “an ideological war.” It was also extremely unpopular. The vote to declare ...

For Britain, 1812 became the skirmish it had contained, while winning the real war against its greatest nemesis, Napoleon.

A poster portraying the “Second Patriotic War” as World War I was known in Russia. (Napoleon’s 1812 invasion was Russia’s first “patriotic war.”) Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II ...