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Noun: Battle of Borodino
  1. A battle in which Napoleon defeated the Russians in 1812 in a pitched battle at a village in western Russia west of Moscow, but irreparably weakened his army
    - Borodino

Type of: pitched battle

Part of: Napoleonic Wars

Encyclopedia: Battle of Borodino

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