An interesting fact about the war of 1812

[French invasion of Russia, Clockwise from top left: Battle of Borodino Fire of Moscow Marshal Ney at the battle of Kaunas French stragglers](By Blaue Max - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link)

A well-known fact, many officers of the Russian army who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812 were killed not by the enemy, but by their own Russian soldiers. Such strange behavior of soldiers is not explained by the conflict between the soldier and the officer. The reason is banal, the education of a Russian officer is to blame for everything, which could not get rid of the habit of speaking French. In the dark, do not understand who is going there and what is dressed, your own or someone else's, the soldiers were guided by sound and naturally you can not be confused with anything. He speaks French means an enemy, that's the death of his ...

The French invasion of Russia, known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 (Russian: Отечественная война 1812 года Otechestvennaya Voyna 1812 Goda) and in France as the Russian Campaign (French: Campagne de Russie), began on 24 June 1812 when Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian army.[14] Napoleon hoped to compel Tsar Alexander I of Russia to cease trading with British merchants through proxies in an effort to pressure the United Kingdom to sue for peace.