Do you know Suvorov?
Suvorov never lost battle, unlike Napoleon.
That Napoleon was lucky that Suvorov died in 1800.
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Large superiority of enemy forces and the lack of reserves led Kutuzov's retreat into the interior of the country, following the strategy of his predecessor, Barclay de Tolly. Further departure meant the surrender of Moscow without a battle, that was unacceptable from both a political and moral point of view. Having received little reinforcement, Kutuzov decided to give Napoleon the engagement, the first and only in the Patriotic War of 1812. The Battle of Borodino, one of the biggest battles of the era of the Napoleonic wars, took place on 26 August (7 September). The day of battle the Russian army inflicted heavy losses on the French troops, but is itself according to preliminary estimates by nightfall the same day, lost almost half of the personnel of the regular forces. The balance has clearly shifted in favor of not Kutuzov. Kutuzov decided to withdraw from the position at Borodino, and then, after a meeting at Fili (now the Moscow area), left Moscow. Nevertheless, the Russian army has shown itself worthy of Borodino, Kutuzov, what on August 30 (September 11) made in the Field Marshals.
After leaving Moscow, Kutuzov secretly made famous Tarutinskij flanking maneuver, moving the army to the beginning of October to the village Tarutino. Once the south and west of Napoleon, Kutuzov blocked his path of motion in the southern regions of the country.
Having failed in their attempts to make peace with Russia, Napoleon 7 (19) October began a retreat from Moscow. He tried to hold the army in Smolensk southern route via Kaluga, where there were supplies of food and forage, but 12 (24) October, in the battle for Maloyaroslavets Kutuzov had stopped and stepped back from the devastated Smolensk road. Russian troops moved to the offensive, which Kutuzov was organized so that the army of Napoleon was under the flank attacks regular and guerrilla groups, and Kutuzov avoided frontal battle large masses of troops.
Due to the strategy Kutuzov Napoleon's great army was almost completely destroyed. Of particular note is that the victory was achieved at modest losses in the Russian army. Kutuzov was in pre-Soviet and post-Soviet time has been criticized for its reluctance to act more decisively and aggressively, for his preference to have a sure victory at the expense of loud glory. Prince Kutuzov, according to contemporaries and historians, with no one to share his designs, his words on the public often disagreed with his orders to the army, so that the true motives of the illustrious commander allow different interpretations. But the end result of his work is undeniable - the defeat of Napoleon in Russia, for that Kutuzov was awarded the Order of St. George the 1 st Cl., Becoming the first in the history of the Order of Knight of St. George the full.
Napoleon often speaks contemptuously about him opposing generals, while not hesitating in expressions. Characteristically, he avoided giving a public assessments Kutuzov's command in the war, preferring to blame for the complete destruction of his army to "harsh Russian winter."
