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Real Time History

Season 2022 · Episode 7

The Greatest Army Europe Had Ever Seen - Napoleon's Invasion of Russia 1812

0.013mMarch 11, 2022

When Napoleon marched his Grande Armée into Russia in 1812, he had assembled the biggest army in modern European history. Only half of his troops came from territories of the expanded French Empire. Tens of thousands of troops also came from Poland, Prussia, Austria, and the German States as well as Southern Europe.

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Episodes

Episode 1French Ragtag Army's Desperate Winter Battles 1871
Episode 2Decision At The Burgundian Gate - The Battle of Belfort Gap
Episode 3Why Wilhelm I Didn't Want To Be German Emperor
Episode 4German Soldiers March Through Paris - The End of the Franco-Prussian War
Episode 5How the French Army Crushed the Socialist Paris Commune 1871 I GLORY & DEFEAT
Episode 6Why Napoleon Invaded Russia in 1812
Episode 7The Greatest Army Europe Had Ever Seen - Napoleon's Invasion of Russia 1812