After the Treaty of Tilsit came into effect, France and Russia became nominal allies, but the business between strange bedfellows, Russia and Britain was not completely cut off. Napoleon calculated repeatedly, and finally opened the road to the East Expedition on the grounds of Russian "breach of contract" 18 12. In June, the army assembled in eastern Germany, and Napoleon reviewed the troops on the west bank of Niemann River. After the engineers set up the pontoon bridge, hundreds of thousands of people, including soldiers from the servant countries and logistics troops, set foot on Polish territory.
/kloc-the medical and health conditions were bad in the 0 ~ (th) century, and typhus was a common disease in Poland and Russia. 18 12 at the turn of summer and autumn, the epidemic was particularly serious-the Russians destroyed the local infrastructure before leaving Poland, and the weather was extremely hot, which accelerated the reproduction and spread of various parasites. Typhus is caused by rickettsia przewalskii, and the pathogen exists in the feces of lice. The problem is that it was not until the 20th century that the medical community knew about this infection chain.
Russian commander Kutuzov is heavily guarded in Borodino, which is 1 10 km west of the capital. /kloc-in September of 0/4, the French army entered Moscow, which was already an empty city, at a cost of about 30,000 people. At this point, Napoleon began to realize that his victory was not worth the loss-the city was set on fire by the Russians, and there was no food and no other supplies. The exhausted French army can no longer advance half a step.