Napoleon held his Imperial Guard in reserve during the battle and didn't use them. Some historians say that if he had deployed them, he might have been able to destroy the Russian Army instead of ...

Between 1812-1814, liberated cities across Europe from Warsaw to Paris witnessed huge Russian victory parades marking the defeat of Napoleon ... by the Russian light cavalry, the hussars ...

On Oct. 16, the cavalry ... by the Russian Imperial Leib Guard, which held off the enemy until reinforcements arrived. The turning point in the battle was the sudden defection of Napoleon ...

On June 24, 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte ... swung around the Russian right flank and attacked the French left flank at Borodino.

The Russian Guard cavalry then put the adjacent 24th Light Regiment to flight. From Stare Vinohrady, Napoleon observed these fleeing infantrymen shouting “Vive l’Empereur!” as they hurried ...

The Imperial Guard was a small, elite army, directly under Napoleon’s control. Like the corps, it had infantry, cavalry and artillery ... Over 60,000 marched into Russia; few returned.

Nadezhda Durova, The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars On May 1 ... about the celebrations in his diary as his guards joined in the festivities.

along with Russia’s far superior light cavalry units, were the Russian forces most feared by the French (and admired by Napoleon, who wished they were on his side). Able to move quickly ...