The Battle of Liaskowa took place 9 November 1812 near the village of Liaskowa, where 3,500 Cossacks under the command of Vasily Vasilyevich Orlov-Denisov surrounded 2,000 soldiers of the Grande Armée
Cossacks were an irregular Russian cavalry best suited for the attack of the enemy’s supply lines without joining a major battle.
The Battle of Borodino or the Battle of Moscow took place on the outskirts of Moscow near the village of Borodino on 7 September 1812, during Napoleon's invasion of Russia. The Grande Armée fought aga
The Battle of Moscow Louis-François Lejeune, 1822
Napoleon I on the Borodino Heights, by Vasily Vereshchagin (1897)
Battle of Borodino by Peter von Hess, 1843. In the center it shows Bagration after being wounded.