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Why did 600,000 French troops lose to a button when Napoleon personally invaded Russia?
Napoleon can be said to be an outstanding strategist in the history of the world. Napoleon's life is full of legends. He not only holds a lofty position in the hearts of the French people, but also has a group of loyal believers in other European countries and even around the world. He is like a nightmare in the eyes of other European countries in the18th century. 18 12 years, due to the deterioration of French-Russian relations, Napoleon led 600,000 troops to attack Russia, while the Russian army at that time was only 200,000. Napoleon was an ever-victorious general, but he failed in the campaign of eastward expedition to Russia, but he was an unremarkable button. Why?

In the early stage of the war, Russian commander Buckley took a retreat to fight a decisive battle. The Russian upper class was very dissatisfied with this, so Kutuzov was appointed as commander-in-chief. After Kutuzov was appointed commander-in-chief of the Russian army, he fought fiercely with the French army, causing heavy casualties on both sides. On the one hand, he delayed the French army that had to face the cold combat environment in Moscow. On the other hand, the Russian army destroyed all the materials that the French army had to pass through and cut off the supply line of the French army.

At that time, the French army set out from the western European continent, which was mild and humid in summer, and did not consider that the weather in Moscow would be so cold. Uniforms equipped in the French army are all sewn with tin buttons, and when the temperature is low to a certain extent, metallic tin will undergo a certain chemical reaction, gradually losing its original solid shape and turning into powder. So the weather became colder and colder, but the buttons on the French soldiers' clothes disappeared. Hundreds of thousands of people can only stand on the frozen plain with open arms and let the cold wind penetrate their clothes. Finally, many people freeze to death in the suburbs of Moscow.

The French army was in a dilemma, and finally Napoleon had to order a retreat. The French army suffered a crushing defeat, leaving only more than 20,000 people in the 600,000-strong army. However, the greatest hero in French history fell on the plains of Eastern Europe in Ma Pingchuan. Napoleon's army did not die at the hands of the enemy, but was wiped out by Barton. Many uniforms of Napoleon's army were probably made by the industrial owners of British factories. The British mistakes led to Napoleon's fiasco in Russia; Three years later, the British defeated Napoleon at Waterloo, which completely sounded the death knell for Napoleon's bad luck.