FRANCE Specimen Medal 1812 Napoleon Battle of Borodino.Entry Moscow PCGS SP63

FRANCE

Napoleon Bronze Specimen Medal 1812

Battle of Borodino and the Capture of Moscow

Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor Napoleon I)

 By Andrieu, Jeuffroy, and Denon.Minted by Paris Mint

 41 mm.

GRADED PCGS SP63

Bramsen-1164

Obverse: Laureate head right
 

Reverse: View of the Kremlin, the French eagle on the fortifications and the French flag high on the highest tower. In exergue : ENTREE A MOSCOU. / XIV SEPTEMBRE / MD.CCC.XII (1812). Signed BR. F (Brenet Fecit), DE.D. (Denon direxit). 

On June 24, 1812, the Grande Armée of 691,501 men, the largest army assembled up to that point in European history, crossed the river Neman and headed towards Moscow. The invasion of the Russian Empire led by Napoleon I of France in 1812 was a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars. The campaign reduced the French and allied invasion forces to less than two percent of their initial strength. Its sustained role in Russian culture may be seen in Tolstoy's War and Peace and the Soviet identification between it and the German invasion of 1941-1945. The March on Moscow The invasion commenced on June 23, 1812. Napoleon had sent a final offer of peace to St. Petersburg shortly before commencing operations. He never received a reply, so he gave the order to proceed into Russian Poland. He initially met little resistance 

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