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Battle of Borodino
Cranston Military Prints By Subject Military Art Napoelonic Wars Battle of Borodino |
Battle of Borodino. Our page of art prints and paintings depicting the Battle of Borodino during the Napoleonic Wars. |
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La Moscowa, The Battle of Borodino, 7th September 1812 by Mark Churms. Sous-Lieutenant Ferdinand de la Riloisiere of 1st Regiment of Carabiniers, moments before he received a mortal wound, in the charge of the 2nd reserve cavalry Corps, against the reavski Redoubt. Despite his injury he survived for several days after the battle and was presented with the cross of the Legion of Honour only hours before his death. |
Charge of the Russian Cuirassiers at Borodino by Jim Lancia. No text for this item |
The Battle of Borodino The battle of Borodino took place during Emperor Napoleons disastrous Russian invasion of 1812 and was one of the most crucial battles of the entire Napoleonic era. The two sides met just 60 miles from Moscow on September 7th 1812. For a man who had earned a reputation as a military genius, Napoleon failed to make the most of his long-awaited opportunity: he simply hurled his troops at the determined Russians. The result was the single biggest bloodbath of the Napoleonic wars - more than 68,000 troops were either killed or wounded. Featuring superb feature-film battle reconstructions, this is the story of the battle that forced Napoleon to turn for home and begin the infamous retreat from Moscow. It also includes period imagery and expert interpretation and analysis by leading authorities on the Napoleonic wars. |
Napoleon at the Battle of Borodino by Robert Hillingford. No text for this item |
Die Uberlebenden by Mark Churms. Saxon Gardes du Corps Officer and The Survivors of the French heavy cavalry attack on the Great Redoubt at the Battle of Borodino in the Napoleonic Wars. |
The Melee by Keith Rocco. The French 1st Carabiniers and the Russian Iziumsk Hussars at the Battle of Borodino, 7 September 1812. Following the capture of the Raevsky Redoubt sometime after 2:00P.M. on 7 September 1812, Napoleons forces were on the verge of a victory on the road to Moscow. As the clouds of black powder smoke darkened the mid-afternoon sky, Prince Eugene de Beauharnais gathered all the available cavalry of the Grande Armee, and hurled them at the already badly mauled Russian forces standing behind the smashed earthen fortification. Passing by the Raevsky Redoubt and flooding the plateau beyond, French cavalry consisting of elements of Montbruns 2nd Reserve Cavalry Corps and Grouchys 3rd Reserve Cavalry Corps became embroiled with Russian regiments of horse in a fight that General Barclay de Tolly described as one of the most stubborn cavalry battles of history. During the ebb-and-flow of this two-hour contest for the control of the Russian center, the French 1st Carabinier Regiment was pitted against the Iziumsk Hussars of Major General Korffs Russian II Cavalry Corps. Finally, after suffering severe casualities that seemed to mirror the carnage strewn across the entire battlefield of Borodino, the cavalry action receded without either side claiming a clear-cut victory. |
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