A quick visualization of Napoleon's catastrophic 1812 invasion of Russia, but filmed from the POV of a war journalist in the style of a 1970s war documentary. This is a massive timeline covering one of the most destructive military campaigns in human history and the total transformation of the Grande Armée. We start right at the crossing of the Niemen river in the summer of 1812. You can see the sheer scale of the French forces and their allies marching through the vast Russian countryside. From

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