July 23 1812 Bagration’s 2nd Russian Army of the West was ordered to advance on Mogliev and meet the 1st Russian Army of the West between Vitebsk and Orsha. Davout’s I Corps (2 divisions) was sent to Mogliev to keep the two Russian armies separated. On July...

  May 16, 1811 Beresford invested the area around Badajoz early April 1811 chasing Latour-Maubourg from Exremadura Spain. Late April Wellington not happy with the progress paid a visit to the area and provided Beresford with a detailed set of instructions...

On August 18th Barclay de Tolly decided to pull out of the battle of Smolensk, and continue the retreat towards Moscow. The main road from Smolensk to Moscow ran on the North side of the Dnieper River. So as to not let Napoleon know they had departed, they burned the bridge over the Dnieper and marched that night in a Northerly direction.