Krasnoe
17 November, 1812
Desperately
trying to hold his army together on the retreat from Moscow,
Napoleon Bonaparte found
his way threatened by troops under Marshal Kutusov.
Acting
immediately, he threw 16,000 men of his Imperial Guard into
a surprise assault that scattered 35,000 Russians and forced
them to flee.
The
way west was again open to the once Grande Armee.
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