Moscow Burns
September 14, 1812
As Napoleon's guards took up quarters in the Kremlin, fires lit by the city's departing governor ran from suburb to suburb until three-quarters of Moscow was ash. The Grande Armée sat in ruins for five weeks waiting for peace offers that never came, then turned west into the first snows.
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- Grande Armée Crosses the Niemen · Europe · War
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Before and after in Europe
- Before: 1811: Luddites Smash Frames
- After: May 2, 1813: Lützen and Bautzen
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Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.