![The long retreat during the Russian winter of 1812 doomed Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grand Armee, and brought defeat at the hands of the Sixth Coalition.](https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/Napoleon-Bonaparte-The-Russian-Winter-of-1812.jpg)
Napoleonic Wars
Napoleon Bonaparte & The Russian Winter of 1812
by Michael HaskewAlthough the French Empire and Imperial Russia were nominal allies following their agreement of mutual support concluded at Tilsit in 1807, divergent interests drove a wedge between them in subsequent years. Read more