Battery Rajewski: history

The battle of Borodino-one of the greatest and most famous battles in the history of mankind. The Russian army has displayed heroism, which is admired for more than two centuries. One of the most strategically important points on the field during the battle of Borodino was the Raevsky battery, so the French made great efforts to capture it.

Battery Rajewski – the hill on the Borodino field, which is very well viewed the Russian positions to the West and the East, from the New Smolensk road to Bagration flush flushes.

On the mound were 18 guns, and several also stood at the sides. Few guns remained on the hill, the rest were in the phalanx behind. Led the defense of the hill, Lieutenant-General Nikolay Raevsky, the commander of the seventh infantry regiment.

Battery Rajewski (“War and peace” thick)

The Description of the battle was the subject of several chapters. Pierre Bezukhov has never served in the army and had absolutely no idea what it is. But he came to the front out of patriotism and the desire not so much to fight and kill the enemies as to feel like a party so Grand and so much meaning for his homeland of battle.

Pierre on the battery Rajewski really acquainted with war. First, he watches from the side, not understanding and feeling as if uncomfortable, but then captures the unusual sight of Pierre.

Battery Rajewski was also called “the key of Borodino position”, because after its capture repeatedly complicated the defense of the Russian army. The French took the village of Borodino, about six o'clock, put the guns of the heavy artillery in the South-East and began shelling the battery Raevskogo from the flanks.

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The First attempt to take the position of “Battery Rajewski” was taken by the French infantry about 9 o'clock in the morning. First two divisions rapidly advanced from the West. Russian firing of guns from their positions, but when the enemy was at a distance of 100 steps, was given the order to fire, and the French ranks began to thin out faster and faster. Soon the enemy broke and ran.

About 10 o'clock in the morning the French made a second attempt to take the battery Rajewski. By the time he approached the Russian reserve troops, and the situation at Bagration flush flushes improved. In the second attack involved the division of General Moran, who swiftly stepped forward and managed to hide in the dense smoke of gunpowder before he was shot by the Russians. Suddenly, the Moran division is rapidly advancing through the parapet and captured the Raevsky battery. But the Russians under the command of General Yermolov sent again forced the French to flee.

And Russian, and the French suffered significant losses. Only to the first hour of the day, installing a fair amount of artillery to Bagration flush flesh, the French decided on a third attack. This time the battery Rajewski attacked 6 divisions. The cavalry went on the offensive from the front and rear of the battery. But the Russian cavalry behind the infantry, repulsed the attacks. Then the French went infantry from all sides. Ensued a hot fight. It was attended by Barclay de Tolly and seriously ill, General Likhachev. The French suffered heavy losses, but still at the beginning of the 5th hour captured the Raevsky battery, and the Russians were forced to retreat to Kutuzov borders.