Men dressed as 1812-era Russian and French soldiers re-enact a staged battle in the town of Borisov, 70 km (44 miles) east of Minsk, Belarus, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019, to mark the 207th anniversary of ...

MINSK, Belarus – Belarus held a burial ceremony Friday for 110 Napoleonic soldiers who died in a major battle in 1812 against the Russian army. Tens of thousands of French troops died in November 1812 ...

Members of 49 war history clubs from Belarus, Russia, France, Poland and Belgium reenacted the Battle of Berezina that took place in November 1812 between the French army of Napoleon and the Russian ...

(Olga MALTSEVA/AFP/AFP) The Battle of Berezina in 1812 was a significant moment in Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's aborted campaign against Tsarist Russia, with French troops suffering heavy losses as ...

Reenactors marked the 207th anniversary of the Battle of Berezina, a major clash during the Napoleonic Wars, near Minsk in Belarus in late November. During the battle, Napoleon's forces faced ...

A bérézina refers, in colloquial French, to “a disastrous situation.” The term derives from the name of a river that the French army crossed in November 1812, in retreat from Moscow after Napoleon’s ...

A reenactment of the battle between the Russian imperial army and Napoleon's army took place on 25 November as part of the international festival Berezina 2018. Taking part in the event were military ...