✦ History

Part of French invasion of Russia

Battle of Krasnoi

November 15–18, 1812 · Battle of Krasnoi

Result Russian victory

Kutuzov's attacks on the retreating Grande Armée, which cut off and nearly took Ney's corps.

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Coalition

French Empire and allies

Russian Empire
Kingdom of Westphalia
Duchy of Warsaw
Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)
France
Mikhail Kutuzov military commander Alexander Tormasov military commander Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov military commander Mikhail Miloradovich military commander Dmitry Golitsyn military commander Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy military commander Matvey Ivanovich Platov military commander
Napoleon military commander Michel Ney military commander Louis-Nicolas Davout military commander Joachim Murat military commander Luis Alejandro Berthier military commander Eugène de Beauharnais military commander Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier military commander Jean-Baptiste Bessières military commander
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François Joseph Lefebvre military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
c. 90,000
Casualties
2,000–5,000c. 2,000
Guns
500–600
Strength
41,500c. 50,000
Casualties
c. 18,000
Captured
c. 12,000
Guns lost
c. 93

Units

III Corps (Ney, 1812) IV Corps (Eugène, 1812)

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