What was the farthest point Napoleon's armies reached in Russia?

Question

What was the farthest point Napoleon's armies reached in Russia?

Answer 1

I think Moscow's the farthest place Napoleon's army had gone into Russia. When they got there, they found that Czar Alexander I and his troops abandoned the capital (well, I think St. Petersburg was the capital, back then), and burned it to the ground, to prevent Napoleon from using the city to take shelter for the winter. He used the harsh Russian winter to inflict as much damage to Napoleon's army as it can, and it worked to his advantage. As a result, a lot of Napoleon's troops died on their retreat back to France.

You may want to check the details out, just to make sure.

Answer 2

jobalds and steve are right: Napoleon occupied Moscow on September 14 1812, but soon after fire spread throughout the city (probably sabotage by the Russians, but the exact origin is matter of dispute). With his occupation not bringing the Russian army out nor causing the Tsar to sue for peace, Napoleon ordered his army to retreat from Moscow back to Smolensk on October 25. Smolensk was reached on November 9. A full-scale retreat followed.

Napoleon's invasion failed not because he did not occupy the right places or because he was militarily deficient, but because his plan failed strategically. He expected the Russian army would come out, be defeated, and then the Russian government would sign a peace treaty on French terms. he believed this because he WANTED to believe it, but the compelling strategic reasoning was not there.

Iraq suffered from the same problem: faulty logic.

Answer 3

Napoleon's armies reached the outskirts of Moscow but they were cold exhausted and weak.
Their supply chain couldn't keep up with the front and the weather was atrocious.

Answer 4

Moscow, if you mean farthest East. He detached small units of the army North and South to occupy certain lesser points.

Answer 5

the outskirts of Moscow, and he tried to encircle by sending troops north and south, to give him a bigger corridor or territory also, but going from west to East, it was right at the gates of Moscow.