Dimensions
130 x 197 x 15mm
On the 7th of September 1812, the armies of the French and Russian Empires closed in battle on the approaches to Moscow. Nearly 260,000 men were engaged on a front of less than three miles in what the Russian commander called "the most bloody battle of modern times". When the battle was over the ground was strewn with the bodies of 94,000 men and horses. In Napoleon's phrase this was truly "a battle of giants". But Napoleon had failed in his aim to destroy the Russian army in one decisive blow and thereafter every day he spent in Russia served to make the final ruin of his own army more complete.
