Mikhail kutuzov ship sticks
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Clash of Empires
By David A. Norris
The Battle of Trafalgar, fought off the southwest coast of Spain on October 21, , was a disaster for French Emperor Napoleon I. His Franco-Spanish fleet lost 21 of its 33 ships of the line captured and another sunk. Plans for a French invasion of England collapsed; British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger was elated.
Yet several weeks later, news arrived in London to change Pitt’s optimistic joy into gloom. Trafalgar was a magnificent sea victory, but the December 2, , Battle of Austerlitz balanced Britain’s advantage at sea by cementing Napoleon’s grasp of land power across Europe. “Roll up that map; it will not be wanted these 10 years,” Pitt told an aide, pointing to a large map of Europe in his office upon learning of Napoleon’s triumph at Austerlitz.
The Treaty of Amiens had brought only a short, shaky spell of peace before war resumed between Napoleon and Great Britain in May For a few months, some other European powers stayed out of the fighting. But in March , Napoleon arrested Louis-Antoine, duc d’Enghien, a member of a branch of the Bourbon family who had formerly ruled France. False intelligence implicated the duke in a plot to assassinate Napoleon, who sent troops to seize the duke at his home in the neutral German s
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Battle of Krasnoi
battle in Russia during the French retreat
| Battle of Krasnoi | |
|---|---|
| Part of the French invasion of Russia | |
Battle of Krasnoi on 17 November by Peter von Hess () | |
| Belligerents | |
| France Kingdom of Westphalia Duchy of Warsaw Kingdom of Italy | &#;Russia |
| Commanders and leaders | |
| Strength | |
| 41, combatants[1] 35, stragglers[2] | 50, to 60, regular troops[3] 20, Cossack cavalry[3] [3][4] – cannon[5] |
| Casualties and losses | |
| 5, to 13, killed, wounded or drowned soldiers and stragglers[6] 26, prisoners (almost all stragglers)[7][8] and cannon.[9][10] | 2, to 5, killed and wounded[11] |
The Battle of Krasnoi (at Krasny or Krasnoe) unfolded from 15 to 18 November marking a critical episode in Napoleon's arduous retreat from Moscow.[12] Over the course of six skirmishes the Russian forces under field marshalKutuzov inflicted significant blows upon the remnants of the Grande Armée, already severely weakened by attrition warfare.[13][14] These confrontations, though not escalated into full-scale battles, led to substantial losses for the French due to their depleted weapons and h
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Sticker Cruiser Mikhail Kutuzov in Novorossiysk, Russia
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