After the capture of Smolensk and victory in the Battle of Borodino, Napoleon and a large part of the Grande Armée reached Moscow on 14 September 1812. The huge multinational army marched slowly eastwards, with the Russians falling back before it. All contingents were commanded by French generals, except for a Polish and an Austrian corps. It reached its maximum size of 600,000 men at the start of the invasion of Russia against the Sixth Coalition in 1812. The army grew in size as Napoleon's might spread across Europe. When Napoleon discovered that Russian and Austrian armies were preparing to invade France in late 1805, the Grande Armée was hurriedly ordered across the Rhine into Southern Germany, leading to Napoleon's victories at Ulm and Austerlitz. The first Grande Armée consisted of six corps under the command of Napoleon's marshals and senior generals. In practice, however, the term "Grande Armée" is used in English to refer to all of the multinational forces gathered by Napoleon I in his campaigns of the early nineteenth century (see Napoleonic Wars). Thereafter, the name was used for the principal French army deployed in the Campaigns of 1806- 07, 1812, and 1813- 14. The name La Grande Armée ( French for "the Big Army," "the Great Army," or "the Grand Army") first entered the annals of history when, in 1805, Napoleon I renamed the army that he had assembled on the French coast of the English Channel for the proposed invasion of Britain and re-deployed it East to commence the Campaign of 1805 against Austria and Russia. Ulm, Austerlitz, Jena-Auerstedt, Eylau, Friedland, Invasion of Russia 1812, Smolensk, Borodino, Berezina, Lützen, Dresden, Leipzig, Vauchamps, Arcis-sur-Aube. La Victoire Est a Nous (Victory is ours/upon us), 300,000 Frenchmen, Belgians and Dutchmen.Related subjects: General history La Grande Armée
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