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Test Conflict

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French invasion of Russia
Part of Napoleonic Wars
Top to bottom, left to right: Italian soldiers struggling with thirst and heat by Albrecht Adam · The end of Borodino battle by Vasily Vereshchagin · Moscow burning by Viktor Mazurovsky · French soldiers attacked by Russian Cossacks · Crossing the Berezina River by Victor Adam · Marshal Ney at the Kowno redoubt by Auguste Raffet
Date	24 June - 24 December 1812 (6 months)
Location	Russian Empire
Result	Russian victory
Belligerents
French Empire Duchy of Warsaw Italy Naples Swiss Confederacy Denmark-Norway Austria Prussia [show] Rhine Confederation	Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Napoleon I other commanders: [show] Joachim Murat Louis-Nicolas Davout Michel Ney Eugene de Beauharnais Jacques MacDonald	Alexander I other commanders: [show] Mikhail Kutuzov Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly Pyotr Bagration Peter Wittgenstein
Strength
600,000-685,000 total: 440,000-449,000 - First wave 134,000 - Borodino 108,000 - Maloyaroslavets 33,000 - Berezina	571,000-713,000 total: 198,000 - First wave 118,000 - Borodino 129,000 - Maloyaroslavets 126,000 - Berezina
Casualties and losses
580,000-630,000 300,000-350,000 dead 180,000 wounded 50,000 deserted 50,000 captured	410,000 210,000 dead 150,000 wounded 50,000 deserted
Total military and civilian deaths: c. 1,000,000