Apr 10, 2021 · The Battle of Liaskowa (or Lyakhovo) took place 9 November 1812 near the village of Liaskowa, where 3,500 Cossacks under the command of Vasily Vasilyevich Orlov-Denisov …

One of the largest of the cavalry reinforcements for the main Russian forces was the cossack opolchenie, or mass levy, which arrived at the Tarutino encampment at the end of September …

The Battle of Mir took place on 9 and 10 July 1812 during Napoleon's invasion of Russia. Three Polish Lancers divisions battled against Russian cavalry,[3] ending in the first major Russian …

Feb 20, 2023 · The Russian army had about 40,000 Cossacks in its ranks at the beginning of the Patriotic War in 1812. They were mostly the Don Cossacks under Ataman Matvei Platov, …

On June 24, 1812, the army of Napoleon Bonaparte breached the borders of the Russian Empire. Avoiding a major battle, two separate Russian armies began to retreat deeper into their own …

The war of 1812 demonstrated the great value of the Cossack irregular formations. In addition to the 31 cavalry regiments which were stationed on Russia's western frontier at the time of the …

Cossack Corps. Totals. Composition and Strength of the Russian Armies at the Beginning of 1812: The First Army of the West. By Alexander Mikaberidze, Chairman of the Napoleonic …

The Grand Army’s advance guard under Marshal Joachim Murat was misled by a Cossack regiment, which had orders to retreat as soon as the enemy force tried to come closer, thereby …

In 1812, the Russians raised in excess of 300,000 provincial militia (Opolchenie) and volunteers in addition to the Cossacks and Irregular Cavalry (see Cossack Hurrah!! These acted as a …

On 20 June 1812, the regiments of the Cossack Corps of Ataman Platov (14 regiments) arrived in the vicinity of Grodno to guard the borders. Four days later, 130 kilometers north of Grodno, …

Sep 8, 2014 · In 1760, Cossacks came to Berlin in the ranks of the Russian army that defeated Prussia. They were put to policing the streets of Berlin, and fulfilled the task admirably. Their …

The following is a diagram of the differences among major Russian historians in respect to the strength of Russian armies prior to June, 1812. This paper tries to reconcile those differences …

The French Invasion of Russia day by day. The Russian campaign of 1812, locally known as the "Patriotic War" [Отечественная война], began on June 24, 1812, when the Grande Armée led …

Movements of the French and Russian armies during Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, 18 October through 5 December 1812. The walls of the Smolensk Kremlin The Grande Armée …

Russian artillery began falling on the stragglers and the bridges, causing still more panic and confusion in Victor’s rear. “Red Lancer crossing the Berezina, 1812” by the French artist Jules …

Riehn provides the following figures: 685,000 men marched into Russia in 1812, of whom around 355,000 were French; 31,000 soldiers marched out again in some sort of military formation, …

In 1918, Russian Cossacks declared their complete independence, creating two independent states, the Don Republic and the Kuban People's Republic, and the revived Hetmanate …