French Invasion o Roushie
Pairt o the Napoleonic Wars
Clockwise frae tap left: The Battle o Borodino bi Louis Lejeune; The Fire o Moscow bi Albrecht Adam; Marshal Ney at the battle o Kaunas bi Auguste Raffet; French retreat bi Illarion Pryanishnikov
Date 24 Juin  – 14 December 1812 (5 months, 2 weeks and 6 days) Location Roushie Empire Result Decisive Roushie veectory[1] Destruction o French Allied Airmy Stairt o the War o the Saxt Coaleetion
Belligerents
French Empire Duchy o Warsaw Kinrick o Italy  Naples Confederation o the Rhine  Baden Bavarie Berg Saxony  Westphalia Swiss Confederation Napoleonic Spain  Austrick  Prussia Denmark–Norawa	Roushie Empire
Commanders an leaders
Napoleon I Louis Alexandre Berthier Louis-Nicolas Davout Michel Ney Jacques MacDonald Nicolas Oudinot Jerome I Józef Poniatowski Joachim Murat Eugène de Beauharnais Karl Philipp Johann Yorck Julius von Grawert Johann Ewald[2][3]	Alexander I Mikhail Kutuzov Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly Pyotr Bagration † Peter Wittgenstein Alexander Tormasov Pavel Chichagov
Strenth
Grande Armée: c. 685,000[4]	Imperial Roushie Airmy: regulars: 198,250 Juin 20t[4] Aroond 900,000 men (sodgers an militia) at peak[4]
Casualties an losses
Daiths: 400,000[5][6] Survivors: 120,000 men (excludin early deserters).	Daiths: 210,000[7]

The French invasion o Roushie, kent in Roushie as the Patriotic War o 1812 ([Отечественная война 1812 года, Otechestvennaya Voyna 1812 Goda] error: ((lang-xx)): text has italic markup (help)) an in Fraunce as the Roushie Campaign (French: Campagne de Russie), begoud on 24 Juin 1812 whan Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Neman River in an attempt tae engage an defeat the Roushie airmy.^[8] The invasion wis a failyie.

Soorces

• Riehn, Richard K. (1991), 1812: Napoleon's Russian Campaign (Paperback ed.), New York: Wiley, ISBN 978-0471543022
• Zamoyski, Adam (2005), 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow, London: Harper Perennial, ISBN 0-00-712374-4