Real Time History

Season 2022, Episode 7

Episode Title: The Greatest Army Europe Had Ever Seen - Napoleon's Invasion of Russia 1812

Air Date: 2022-03-11

Overview:

When Napoleon marched his Grande Armée into Russia in 1812, he had assembled the biggest army in modern European history. Only half of his troops came from territories of the expanded French Empire. Tens of thousands of troops also came from Poland, Prussia, Austria, and the German States as well as Southern Europe.