The Russian troops, (under the stewardship of Mikhail Kutuzov), fell back, systematically devastating the land. The Grande Armée, which consisted of some 600,000 strong, including troops of all the vassal and allied states, entered Russia in June 1812. When the Tsar rejected the Continental System, which was ruinous to Russia's economy, Napoleon gathered the largest army Europe had ever seen. This was perhaps Napoleon's fatal mistake because he split his army to attempt to fight on two fronts. In 1812, Napoleon led his army to Russia after they had gone back on the treaties of Tilsit and Erfurt in 1808, and had agreed to reopen trade with Britain. Napoleon eventually fell from power in 1814 due to a combination of reasons, each resulting from a chain reaction originally caused by the failure of Napoleons’ major military campaigns, such as the ill fated campaign to invade Russia. Why Did Napoleon fall from Power in 1814?
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