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Borodino

noun

Napoleon defeated the Russians in 1812 in a pitched battle at a village in western Russia west of Moscow, but irreparably weakened his army.

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... when, quite suddenly, the Russian troops confronted them, only a hundred and twenty-eight thousand men were available, the others straggling behind. The Russians had a hundred thousand men, but the French superiority was not enough for them to secure a final victory. The great battle of Borodino began before sunrise, and the setting sun, red as always, sank too early to see its end. When night fell on the scene, thirty-eight thousand Russians had fallen and only twenty-five thousand French, but it acted almost as a defeat upon the French, accustomed as they were ...

— The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men • Francis William Rolt-Wheeler

Words linked to "Borodino" : Russia, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, Soviet Russia, pitched battle, Napoleonic Wars