Beresina bridges
Photo Credit: The final battle in Napoleon’s disastrous 1812 invasion of Russia is depicted in the painting, “The Grande Armée Crossing the Berezina,” by Polish artist and army officer January Suchodolski (1866). His original force of more than 600,000 had been decimated by death, disease, desertion and capture; only about 30,000 men made it across the river as Napoleon went on ahead to Paris.