In which year did the Battle of Borodino take place? The Battle of Borodino took place in 1812. It was the decisive large-scale clash of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia that year.
The battle was fought near the village of Borodino, west of Moscow, on 7 September 1812. Napoleon’s Grande Armée attacked the Imperial Russian Army commanded by Mikhail Kutuzov after the Russian retreat from Smolensk. The fighting centered on heavily defended earthworks, including the Raevsky redoubt and the Bagration flèches.
French forces captured the principal Russian positions, but they failed to destroy Kutuzov’s army. The Russians withdrew, leaving the road to Moscow open, and Napoleon occupied the city soon afterward. That apparent French success did not end the war; the subsequent retreat through a devastated landscape destroyed much of the invading army.
Borodino is often described as the bloodiest single day of the Napoleonic Wars, with combined casualties commonly estimated at more than 70,000. The dates in the wrong options belong to other major conflicts: Austerlitz was fought in 1805 and Leipzig in 1813.