| NOUN | act | Borodino | Napoleon defeated the Russians in 1812 in a pitched battle at a village in western Russia west of Moscow, but irreparably weakened / weakened his army |
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| Meaning | Napoleon defeated the Russians in 1812 in a pitched battle at a village in western Russia west of Moscow, but irreparably weakened / weakened his army. | |
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| Instance of | pitched battle | A fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place |
| Part of | Napoleonic Wars | A series of wars fought between France (led by Napoleon Bonaparte) and alliances involving England and Prussia and Russia and Austria at different times |
| Region | Soviet Russia, Russia, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic | formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia |
| Spanish | batalla de Borodino, Borodino | |
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