They all put on clean white underwear and went into battle. The battle of Borodino was a brutal slug-fest. Napoleon threw his enormous army at the Russians in a frontal assault, showing little of ...

At his command, Napoleon had 130,000 soldiers with whom to attack the Russian defenders, who numbered around 120,000. The Battle of Borodino began at dawn on September 7, 1812. A barrage from 102 ...