[DOC] [TLE] Fire of Moscow (1812) - Wikipedia [PAR] For similar disasters, see Fire of Moscow. The 1812 Fire of Moscow broke out on 
September 14, 1812 in Moscow on the day when Russian troops and most 
residents abandoned the city and Napoleon's vanguard troops entered the city 
following the Battle ... The burning of Moscow is reported to have been visible up 
to 215 km away. [DOC] [TLE] Napoleon enters Moscow - Sep 14, 1812 - HISTORY.com [PAR] Moscow was the goal of the invasion, but the deserted city held no czarist ... In 
1812, French Emperor Napoleon I was still at the height of his fortunes. ... The 
fleeing Russian forces adopted a scorched earth strategy, seizing or burning 
any ... day; he didn't try to outflank the Russians, and he declined to send much-
needed... [DOC] [TLE] The Burning of Moscow as Seen by One of Napoleon's Generals [PAR] He was heard to say, I am at length then in Moscow! in the ancient city of the ... 
where the choicest troops of the army, and their commander, were reposing. ... 
We threw our eyes upon the ground in consternation at the idea of so frightful ... 
Expedition to Russia, undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812, 2 
vols. [DOC] [TLE] Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 [PAR] Jun 2, 2014 ... The retreat from Moscow was one of the defining images of the Napoleonic ... 
The Russians also agreed to Napoleon's restructuring of much of Germany, ... On 
the French side Napoleon withdrew most of his troops behind the Elbe, ... 
Napoleon agreed that Russian could occupy Moldavia and Wallachia but... [DOC] [TLE] 1812now: September 15 1812: Moscow Burns [PAR] On September 15, 1812, at 6 o'clock, with the sunrise Napoleon rides into 
Moscow to ... He would have passed through a beautiful city described as a "
fantastic ... brief moment given to hope, he sent proposals of peace to the 
Emperor Alexander. ... have conceived the hope of burning with Moscow our 
soldiers, heavy with... [DOC] [TLE] Moscow's Last Great Fire - Russian Life [PAR] Sep 14, 2012 ... Moscow's last Great Fire was 200 years ago, on September 14, ... city during the 
occupation of the city by Napoleon's Grande Arme in September 1812. ... city 
burned, others blame campfires set by Russian or French troops. .... is that 
Moscow burned to the ground, that it was built anew after 1812, he said. [DOC] [TLE] Timeline Napoleon's Russian campaign: From the Niemen to Moscow [PAR] In June 1812, the 1st Western Army was stationed along the frontier with ... The 
emperor wanted Jerome to push on and harry Bagration's force before it ... Yet by 
17 July, the Russians were leaving the camp, having burned their remaining 
stores. .... on 28 July, Napoleon decided to offer his troops some much needed 
rest. [DOC] [TLE] Napoleon in Russia: Saviour or Anti-Christ? | History Today [PAR] On June 24th, 1812 Napoleon crossed the river Niemen and entered ... On 
August 18th, after the first major battle with the Russian forces, the French 
entered Smolensk. ... Napoleon hoped that the occupation of Moscow would 
force Alexander to .... soldiers into her hut, let them get drunk and then burnt the 
hut to the ground. [DOC] [TLE] Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace - Napoleon Bonaparte - Tsar ... [PAR] Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace - How Russia abandoned Moscow to Napoleon ... 
proved to be Napoleon's undoing, however, since his army gorged itself on the 
city, ... On the twelfth of June, 1812, the forces of Western Europe crossed the .... 
the French Emperor's love and habit of war coinciding with his people's 
inclinations. [DOC] [TLE] The Patriotic War of 1812 - VERUM Travel [PAR] Napoleon's ultimately disastrous invasion of the Russian Empire in 1812 is one 
of ... Next on the French emperor's list was its fragile ally Russia, which was doing 
... commander Mikhail Kutuzov to lead all the ground and naval forces based in 
St. ... would continue the retreat all

Question: Much of Moscow was burned to the ground in 1812 when this emperor's troops occupied the city
Answer: Napoleon