Reprocess of Russia
the retirement of Russia (1812) indicates the fold of the army Napoleon ienne of Moscow until in France, at the conclusion of the Campagne of Russia and which decimated to it quasi totality of the French Army.
Unfolding
The retirement of Russia begins in the evening from the October 18th 1812, by the order of retirement given by Napoleon, following the Bataille of Winkowo, gained by the general Mikhaïl Koutousov. Napoleon leaves Moscow the October 19th, by a still lenient time. In November, the temperature drops brutally. In December, by temperatures of -35° C, the last remainders of the Large army of Napoleon beat painfully reprocesses some in direction of Vilnius (Lithuania), the Cosaques of the tsar Alexandre Ier with their cases. Approximately forty thousand of these soldiers will have found death the few following weeks.
During this retirement, the French Army must cross an almost cold river, the Bérézina. They build a bridge quickly because the Russian troops are with their cases. The bridge crumbles and most of the Large army leaves the life there.
Archeology
One of the common graves where their bodies were summarily buried was put at the day by the team of the archeologists and the scientists, directed by Doctor Rimantas Jankauska, pathologist at the University of Vilnius. This reveals that the soldiers are not died in the combat, but of cold, deprivation and disease.