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Give three reasons why the Russian Campaign was a disaster for Napoleon?
In June 1812, Napoleon’s army invaded Russia. The heat and lack of supplies caused disease and desertion. Russian troops withdrew before his advance, and peasants scorched their fields, so there was nothing the French army could use. When the army finally got to Moscow, the city was deserted and in flames. Nothing in the city could support the troops, forcing the French to retreat. However, when winter set in, starvation and freezing temperatures killed most of Napoleon’s troops.