How Russia crushed Napoleon in 1812
The French believed that taking Moscow would bring them victory in the war. However, the city turned out to be the grave of the Grande Armee.
On the night of June 23-24, 1812, a reconnaissance party of the Lifeguard Cossack Regiment patrolling the border of the Russian Empire on the River Neman near Kovno (now Kaunas) discovered a company of French sappers landing on the shore. "Who's there?" a Russian officer