Battle of Borodino
About the Battle
The bloodiest single day of the Napoleonic Wars, with around 70,000 total casualties. Kutuzov blocked the road to Moscow behind field fortifications. The battle was a slaughter over a single redoubt and the flches. Napoleon declined to commit his Guard and called it the most terrible of his battles. The road to Moscow lay open, and the city burned a week later. It was the beginning of the end.
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