The Battle of Borodino began on the 7th September 1812.Both sides had around 120,000 men and 600 cannons each

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The Battle of Borodino began on the 7th September 1812.

Nationalities which fought on the side of Imperial France (among others):
French
Badensians
Dutch
Prussians
Wuerttembergians
Italians
Saxons
Westphalians
Hessians
Poles
Lithuanians
Portuguese
Spaniards
Croats
Dalmatians
Mamelukes

Nationalities which fought on the side of Imperial Russia (among others):
Russians
Cossacks
Latvians
Lithuanians
Bashkirs
Georgians
Crimean Tartars
Kalmuks
Germans (various)

Both sides had around 120,000 men and 600 cannons each. Casualties of dead and wounded are are disputed. Before the battle Napoleon had estimated he would need to sacrifice around 20,000 men and then he could take Moscow, by which time he would receive more men in reinforcements than he had lost.
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