 | Battle of Borodino: Battle of the Napoleonic Wars, fought on September 7, 1812, between a French army under Napoleon and a Russian army under Marshal Mikhail Ilarionovich Kutuzov. After a fierce battle the Russians retired, and the French occupied Moscow without further resistance. Russian casualties in the battle, generally regarded as the costliest of the 19th century, were about 42,000 men. Napoleon lost about 32,000 men. The battle is described in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace (1869). |
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