The march on Moscow and the retreat, drawn as a river of men.
The band's width is the army's strength — one millimetre for ten thousand lives.
After Charles Joseph Minard, 1869.
Date
24 June 1812
Men under arms
422,000
Temperature
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Advance — June to September
Retreat — October to December Drag the timeline, hover the band, or step with ← → (⇧ for a week).
The human ledger — one dot, one thousand men · 422,000 alive