Napoleonic Wars. Russian campaigns. On 14 September 1812, French troops entered Moscow. The Russian commanders had not surrendered to the advance of the Grande Armée, deciding to burn Moscow and evacuate the city between 2 and 6 September. The French in Moscow. Engraving. "Los Heroes y las Grandezas de la Tierra" (The Heroes and the Grandeurs of the Earth). Volume VI. 1856.

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