The Battle of Krasnoi, Napoleon Total War

"Revenge on me, and I shall be avenged."

The Battle of Krasnoi (Krasny) (November 15 to 18, 1812) was a series of skirmishes fought in the final stage of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. This encounter was noteworthy because of the heavy losses inflicted on the remnants of the Grande Armée by the Russians under General Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov. Lacking sufficient artillery, cavalry and supplies to wage battle, Napoleon's object at Krasnoi was to collect his scattered troops and to resume his retreat. Despite the vast superiority of his forces, Kutusov refrained from launching a full-scale offensive during the four days of fighting.

At 3 p.m. on November 18, Ney's III Corps finally made contact with Miloradovich, who had posted 12,000 troops on a hill overlooking a deep ravine. Ney had 8,000 combatants and 7,000 stragglers under his command at this point. Believing that Davout was still in Krasny, directly behind Miloradovich's columns, Ney turned down a Russian offer of honorable surrender, and boldy attempted to ram his way through the enemy. The dogged French troops then succeeded in piercing the first two lines of Russian infantry.The third line, however, proved indominatable, and at the decisive moment, the terrible defeat of the III Corps was thorough enough to induce the chivalrous Miloradovich to extend another honorable surrender to Ney. Again, Ney refused to submit, and with 2,000 refugees—all that remained of his corps, the Russians counterattacked.


A collection of ideas I had that I tried to make as movie-like as possible to practice my editting skills so they don't get rusty. I learned a lot of things.

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[Snake15935755]

Well I have nothing against French or so something but this Ney.."BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE & DUMBEST OF THE DUMB"...did you see what he did in the battle of waterloo? He moved all the cavalry into the British squares and that was the dumbest thing Ive ever seen...well if just once..but he repeated the attack..Im sorry but I think he was a way too brave...

[ltflak]

@Snake15935755 Considering that calvary attacked ended in a draw, it doesn't seem all that stupid. Seemed far more effective then Napoleon's infantry attacks at Waterloo.

[obbabob]

This Game better than Empire?

[ltflak]

@obbabob In many ways yes, but I still do miss the Indian and American maps...

[MrBoelbo]

subtitles pls :(

[ltflak]

@MrBoelbo Turn on the subtitles then, you know, the giant CC button by the video size

[Einherjar1986]

typical russian tactic...sending thousands of untrained men to war watching them beeing slaughtered and perhaps overwhelme the enemy because of the numbers^^

business as usual :-P

[MrGheorgi]

Появится он ровно через 100 лет.

[MrGheorgi]

Вообще-то в 1812 году еще, к сожалению, не было Прощания славянки.

[D3adtrap]

@Einherjar1986

The sheer amount of ignorance of that comment is overwhelming.

[BERNTRR]

@Snake15935755 the cavalry attack was coused due to chain events of failure in his staff.

[BERNTRR]

@antred11 ok

[chaz1453]

great, no, AWESOME video.

[antred11]

@BERNTRR Musket fire is already too accurate in the vanilla version.

[Snake15935755]

@ltflak But good video anyway :) I appreciate that hard work with it :)

[Snake15935755]

@ltflak Well I didnt say that Napoleon did well with that inf....but that was waste of cavalry.....Napoleon couldnt know that there were so many British foot....