Places, museums, monuments : 133
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Place, museum or monumentBorodino (La Moskowa)
It was 150 km from Moscow, at Borodino on 7 September 1812, that the most important battle of the Russian campaign took place. Napoleon's army (130,000 men, 28,000 cavalry and 587 cannon) faced the armies of Russia led by Kutusov (135,000 men, 25,000 cavalry and 624 cannon). The fighting lasted 15 hours and the uninterrupted […]
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Place, museum or monumentForo Buonaparte
When Napoleon named Milan the capital of the Cisalpine Republic on June 1st, 1797, he changed the city's destiny. In 1802 it became capital of the Italian Republic and then in 1805 capital of the Kingdom of Italy, firmly establishing its economic, political and administrative pre-eminence during the Napoleonic period. Furthermore, as a result of Milan's situation on […]
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Place, museum or monumentMuseo Napoleonico – Cuba
The Napoleonic Museum in Cuba is the happy result of the combinationof the personal collections of Julio Lobo and Orestes Ferrara. The artefacts and memorabilia on exhibition were bought at auctionduring the first half of the 20th century and represent the mostimportant Napoleonic collection in Central America. The collection itself was declared a 'National Heritage' […]