Napoléon Bonaparte in Lithuania
On 24 June 1812, the 450.000 men of the Napoleon's Grande Armée, the largest army assembled up to that point in European history, crossed the Neman River in the territory of Lithuania and headed towards Moscow – the French invasion of Russia began. The official political aim of the campaign was to liberate Poland from the threat of Russia. Napoleon named the campaign the Second Polish War to gain favor with the Poles and provide a political pretext for his actions. Among the French, Dutch, Belgian, German, Italian and other not so very loyal mobilized allies (29,000 Prussians and 34,000 Austrians), was a Spanish regiment and 130 battalions of reservists scattered in the vastness of the Empire. Russian campaign was the greatest and bloodiest of the Napoleonic campaigns, involving more than 1.5 million soldiers, with over 500.000 French and 400.000 Russian casualties.
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On 24 June 1812, the 450.000 men of the Napoleon's Grande Armée, the largest army assembled up to that point in European history, crossed the Neman River in the territory of Lithuania and headed towards Moscow – the French invasion of Russia began. The official political aim of the campaign was to liberate Poland from the threat of Russia. Napoleon named the campaign the Second Polish War to gain favor with the Poles and provide a political pretext for his actions. Among the French, Dutch, Belgian, German, Italian and other not so very loyal mobilized allies (29,000 Prussians and 34,000 Austrians), was a Spanish regiment and 130 battalions of reservists scattered in the vastness of the Empire. Russian campaign was the greatest and bloodiest of the Napoleonic campaigns, involving more than 1.5 million soldiers, with over 500.000 French and 400.000 Russian casualties.
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