Battle of Borodino

Name: Battle of Borodino
Start: 1812
Location: Borodino, near Moscow

1812 · Borodino, near Moscow · Eastern Europe & Russia · War

The bloodiest single day of the Napoleonic Wars

On 7 September 1812 at the village of Borodino, Mikhail Kutuzov's Russian army fought a pitched battle with Napoleon's Grande Armée. Some 70,000 men were killed or wounded in a single day; the Russians fell back and gave up Moscow, but kept their army intact.

State: Russian Empire

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