When was Napoleon defeated in Russia?

Answer 1

The winter of 1812. No sooner had the French reached Moscow than it was apparrent there was no one to accept surrender from ! To say the supply lines were stretched.... there were no supply lines, there were no supplies. Many would die both from the cold and the cossacks.

Answer 2

He lost ~600,000 men throughout his disastrous march through Russia. Napoleon did not equip his men with winter clothing to protect them from the harsh grandfather winter of Russia. His men were also not trained to combat against guerrilla warfare which inflicted many casualties during his march through Russia.

Answer 3

They fought a single great battle at Borodino during which both side were badly mauled with heavy losses of over 30,000 each. Russia then continued their withdrawal past Moscow. Russia could rapidly replace its losses, but the French Army had been extended far beyond their supply lines and when they entered a burning Moscow there was no one to greet them and to surrender the city.

Napoleon finally had to withdraw his starving forces and on the retreat back to France his troops were under constant attack by Cossacks and the Russian Winter. They were picked to pieces and only 23,000 of the original 130,000 members of the Grand Army made it out of Russia alive.

Answer 4

The French invasion of Russia of 1812 was a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars. The campaign reduced the French and allied invasion forces to a tiny fraction of their initial strength. Its sustained role in Russian culture may be seen in Tolstoy's War and Peace, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, and the Soviet identification of it with the German invasion of 1941-45.

Causes

At the time of the invasion, Napoleon was at the height of his power with virtually all of continental Europe either under his direct control or held by countries defeated by his empire and under treaties favorable for France. No European power on the continent dared move against him. The 1809 Austrian war treaty had a clause removing Western Galicia from Austria and annexing it to the Grand Duchy of Warsaw. Russia viewed this as against its interests and as a potent launching point for an invasion of Russia. Tsar Alexander found Russia in an economic bind as his country had little in the way of manufacturing and being rich in raw materials yet being part of Napoleon's continental system denied it the trade that was its lifeblood for both money and manufactured goods. Russia's withdrawal from the system was a further incentive to Napoleon to force a decision.

In 1811 Russian Staff has developed a plan of offensive war, assuming Russian assault on Warsaw and Gdańsk.

Answer 5

It was a tragic loss of material and national prestige, but the loss in manpower and skilled leadership among field officers and NCO's was beyond calculation. The numbers could be filled in, but the backbone had been broken. A generation would be needed to retrain the essential core of the Grand Army.

Answer 6

He and the French Army were defeated by the Russian Winter.

Answer 7

He failed to pin down the Russian Army and force a surrender.

Answer 8

He went there but never captured it.

Answer 9

1812