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1812 CAMPAIGN - BORODINO

 
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This map from the West Point Atlas depicts the situation on 24-25 August. By this time Prince Bagration has escaped from the encircling movement attempted by Marshal Davout and has joined Barclay de Tolly at Smolensk where the combined Russian armies fought against Napoleon's main force on 16-17 August. The map shows the French and Russian main forces starting to move east on the road from Smolensk toward Moscow. Meanwhile Tormassov moved north in western Ukraine into Byelorussia and fought several battles. He pushed Reynier back until Schwarzenberg reenforced him. Then the Austrians pushed Tormassov back and cfollowed him south-west of the Pripet Marsh. But Tormassov was wise to preserve his army at this early stage of the campaign and it played an important role in November under Admiral Chichagov in November (by which timeTormassov himself had joined Kutuzov. In the north, Macdonald faces Essen at Riga.

 
   

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