Napoleon’s Frozen Catastrophe: The March That Destroyed an Army

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[00:00:00]Did you know Napoleon's retreat from Moscow created the world's largest frozen graveyard? In [music] 1812, 400,000 French soldiers began marching home through the brutal Russian winter.

[00:00:11]>> [music] >> Temperatures dropped to minus 30 degrees. Men literally froze solid while walking, becoming ice sculptures scattered [music] across the landscape.

[00:00:19]Entire regiments turned into frozen statues overnight. Only 27,000 soldiers survived. The site was so horrifying that [music] European armies completely changed how they fought about winter warfare. One catastrophic march rewrote military strategy forever.