French occupation of Moscow
09/14/1812 AD occupied
Moscow is occupied by French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte' marking the summit of the French invasion of Russia. During the occupation, which lasted 36 days, the city was devastated by fire for six days, and looted.
After continuing Barclay's "delaying operation", defined as "An operation in which a force under pressure trades space for time by slowing down the enemy’s momentum and inflicting maximum damage on the enemy without, in principle, becoming decisively engaged" up to the Battle of Borodino as part of his attrition warfare, Kutuzov used Fyodor Rostopchin to burn Moscow's resources as part of a scorched earth strategy, guerilla warfare by the Cossacks against French supplies and total war by the peasants against foraging. This kind of attrition war weakened the French army at its most vulnerable point: logistics. "An army marches on its stomach" says Riehn.
On 19 October 1812 after the lost Battle of Tarutino Napoleon and his Grande Armée, slowly weakened by this special version of attrition warfare against him, lacking provisions and being warned by the first snow, abandoned the city voluntarily.
Lattitude: 55.7558° N
Longitude: 37.6172° E
Region: Russia and Eastern Bloc
Modern Day Russia
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