With the Peninsular War still ablaze, Napoleon Bonaparte, the French military genius and emperor, made a fateful decision that would go down in history as one of his greatest failures. In 1812, he launched a monumental invasion of Russia with the Grand Armée, setting the stage for a harrowing and disastrous winter campaign. Little did […]
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