When Napoleon and Hitler attempted to take Russia, their empires crumbled. Will the United States of America risk all to win nothing?
Napoleon’s Russian Campaign
When French dictator Napoleon Bonaparte began his Russian Campaign, on June 24th, 1812, the Russian army chose to avoid conflict. It retreated and applied a scorched-earth tactic, burning everything behind it. This put a strain on the French army’s supplies. For three months, the Russians kept ceding territory until the bloody Battle of Borodino. The French won, barely, and Napoleon marched into a smoldering Moscow, set ablaze by the fleeing Russians.