Battle of Berezina
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The Battle of Berezina took place from 26 to 29 November 1812, between Napoleon's Grande Armée and the Imperial Russian Army under Field Marshal Wittgenstein and Admiral Chichagov. Napoleon was retrea
Napoleon's crossing of the Berezina, a 1866 painting by January Suchodolski, oil on canvas, National Museum, Poznań
From the Russian monument where Chaplits was located. The Berezina is in the middle, across the river, Studzionka
Studzionka, Biarezina. Студзёнка, Бярэзіна (Lauvergne, 1840)
An image of the Dutch soldiers at the Berezina who helped to cover the retreat for 2 days. Only a third of them survived.
Peter Wittgenstein
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Louis Adolf Peter, 1st Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Ludwigsburg-Berleburg, better known as Peter Wittgenstein in English, was a prince of the German dynasty of Sayn-Wittgenstein and field marshal in th
Battle of Berezina
…the) Berezina (or Beresina) took place from 26 to 29 November 1812, between Napoleon's Grande Armée and the Imperial Russian Army under Field Marshal Wittgenstein and Admiral Chichagov. Napoleon was retreating toward Poland in chaos after the aborted occupation of Moscow and trying to cross the Berezina River at…
Portrait by George Dawe (c. 1819–1825)
Countess Antonia Cäcilie Snarska (wife)
H1 of the 19th c.
H1 of the 19th c.