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Dec 2, 2016 · The placid existence of Maloyaroslavets would be shattered — and most of the town destroyed — by the momentous events of late October 1812. Isolated in a half-ruined Moscow and with no prospects...
The Battle of Maloyaroslavets took place on 24 October 1812 as part of the French invasion of Russia. It was Kutuzov's decisive battle to force Napoleon to retreat northwest over Mozhaisk to Smolensk on the devastated route of his advance with a higher probability of starvation.
24-25 October, 1812. While in Moscow preparing for retreat, Napoleon Bonaparte decided to march his army south-west towards Kaluga, a city in a lush region where plenty of supplies could be found. He sent his stepson, Eugene Beauharnais, and 15,000 men ahead of the main Grande Armee to clear the way of any opposing Russian forces.
On Oct. 24, 1812, Russian forces mounted a furious defense of Maloyaroslavets, compelling Napoleon’s forces to retreat not southward to warmer territory, but back along an icebound road to ruin.
- William Brumfield
Aug 24, 2023 · What happened when Napoleon invaded Russia? Napoleon invaded Russia on 24 June 1812 but suffered heavy losses as the Russians engaged in a war of attrition. Napoleon won the Battle of Borodino and captured Moscow but was forced to retreat through the deadly Russian winter.
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia involved around 615,000 men, 200,000 horses, and 1,300 guns along with a supply train of 7,848 vehicles.
- Napoleon invaded Russia on 24 June 1812 but suffered heavy losses as the Russians engaged in a war of attrition. Napoleon won the Battle of Borodin...
- Of Napoleon's initial 615,000 men, less than 100,000 returned from Russia. Of the half-million losses, 380,000 had died, 120,000 were taken prisone...
- France invaded Russia in 1812 primarily to force it to rejoin the Continental System embargo against Britain.
The long march to Moscow and the bloody Battles of Smolensk and Borodino lay the planks for the army’s coffin; a little-known battle in a town southwest of Moscow at Maloyaroslavets and the fatal council of war pushed on the lid, with the long torturous retreat driving in the nails.
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Maloyaroslavets (mä´ləyärəslä´vyĬts), city, E central European Russia, on the Luzh River. In Oct., 1812, Russian forces in the city barred the road to Kaluga against Napoleon's retreating army, forcing it to retreat by way of Mozhaysk through devastated territory.
