French invasion of Russia subject of much discussion among historians. The campaign's sustained role in Russian culture may be seen in Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture", and the identification of it with the German invasion of 1941–45, which became known as the "Great Patriotic War" in the Soviet Union. French invasion of Russia The French invasion of Russia, known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 () and in France as the Russian Campaign (), began on 24 June 1812 when Napoleon's crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian army. Napoleon hoped to compel Tsar
The Invasion of Canada "Flames Across the Border: The Canadian-American Tragedy, 1813–1814" (1981). "War of 1812, the", in "Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature" (1991), New York: HarperCollins. The Invasion of Canada The Invasion of Canada: 1812–1813 is a 1980 book by Pierre Berton. The book is an account of the first year of the War of 1812 and the events leading up to it. Berton wrote that this history is neither military nor political. "This is, rather, a "social" history of the war, the first to be written by a Canadian." Details of the book were drawn from memoirs and diaries of common