MAP PLAN BATTLE MALOYAROSLAVETS RUSSIA NAPOLEONIC WAR

BATTLE
 OF
MALO-JAROSLAWITZ

24 OCTOBER 1812

 Showing the positions of the French and Russian cavalry, infantry and artillery.

While in Moscow preparing for retreat, Napoleon Bonaparte decided to march his army South-West towards Kaluga, a city in a lush region where plenty of supplies could be found.

He sent his stepson, Eugene Beauharnais, and 15,000 men ahead of the main Grande Armee to clear the way of any opposing Russian forces.

 On 24^th October, Eugene approached Malojaroslavets determined to get control of a major bridge across the River Lusha.

 A Russian force of 20,000 men under Dimitri Dokhturov occupied the town but, despite the odds against him, Eugene immediately launched a series of assaults to capture the bridge and establish a bridgehead on the far bank.

 The fighting was fierce and the span changed hands at least seven times before Eugene committed his last reserves and threw Dokhturov’s men together with new reinforcements out of their positions. The Russians then fell back to hills outside Malojaroslavets.

 Eugene lost 5,000 men in the struggle, while the Russians some 6,000.

Original antique steel plate engraving published
in 1848 with original hand colour

This is one of a series of maps and plans of sieges and battles drawn up by Alexander Keith Johnston, geographer at Edinburgh to Queen Victoria, and published as an atlas to accompany Sir Archibald Alison’s Monumental History Of Europe.
Paper size is 9 by 7¼ inches.
A genuine antique not a reproduction.

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