Index Card # 10

http://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/n_war/campaign/page_13.html

The Beginning

I like this site because it explains how this all started and what predictions were going to be made about this war. What was interesting is that Napoleon said that this war would be over in twenty days he thought that sheer force would crumble them very quickly but it really didnt turn out that way. The Russians fought tremendously well in the Borodino battle which last nearly nine hours