moscow
France
attacking Russia in 1812. Didn't go so hot :/
During the Campaign of Russia of 1812.
When napoleon crossed over the River Niemen, his army was about 500,000 men strong. When the Russian Campaign was over, only about 7,000 combatants and about 20,000 stragglers recrossed the borderin the mid of December 1812.
He hoped to force the Russian Army to end their retreat and to fight a decisive battle.
Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky wrote the 1812 overture. The event he wrote it about was the war of 1812 when Napoleons armies penetrated deep into russia and fought the Russians at Borodino, driving them out of moscow. The Russians gought back and drove Napoleon and his men out. This occured September 7th, 1812.
French engineer Captain Pierre-Francois Bouchard found the stone while in Egypt for preparation of Napoleons campaign of Egypt.
At what is called the Battle of the Nile which was fought from 1 to 3 August 1798 at Aboukir Bay in Egypt.
noted by its brilliant military skills/leadership
False!:)
Great Britain after Napoleons final defeat in 1812 the Great British Empire expanded and had political stability in them periods