2007-01-11 12:28:07 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Napoleon didn't plan that it will take so long. A few delays along the way - and he was caught by severe winter. When he finally came to Moscow, Kutuzov (Russian General who was pulled out retirement to command the army against Napoleon) odrdered to burn it down (the city was evacuated). So Napoleon was left with no real city to conquer, no food to be found in that city. His army was hungry. He pretty much run out of resources.
Amusing detail: French was popular among upper class people in Russia at that time. Many officers were more fluent in French then they were in Russian. That made spying on French a lot easier.
Sorry - it was not just snow. It was snow + Kutuzov's strategic thinking. After the fiasko at Moscow, Kutuzov pushed him to the direction that his army came from, the same road that they devastated on the way there.
2007-01-11 12:35:36 · answer #1 · answered by Snowflake 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
One of the factors is that napolean and his army weren't used to the cold weather in russia.
2007-01-11 12:32:26 · answer #2 · answered by girliegirl 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was mostly beacuse he invaded it during the russian winter witch is very cold and they implyed a "schored earth polycy" witch means that the russians bascailly burn everything they didnt need
2007-01-11 12:32:11 · answer #3 · answered by Chiris Wilkinson 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably all the hot women and the vodka!
2007-01-11 12:31:27 · answer #4 · answered by AL IS ON VACATION AND HAS NO PIC 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The extermely cold whether and disease was very common
2007-01-11 12:31:10 · answer #5 · answered by Wesley™ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One - Snow
2007-01-11 12:39:56 · answer #6 · answered by dem_dogs 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WINTER!
2007-01-11 12:31:32 · answer #7 · answered by waynebudd 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋