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Borodino

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Bo·ro·di·no  (bôr-dn, br-, b-r-dy-nô)
A village of western Russia west of Moscow. Nearby, Napoleon defeated the Russian troops defending Moscow on September 7, 1812.
Borodino [ˌbɒrəˈdiːnəʊ (Russian) bərədiˈnɔ]
n
(Placename) a village in E central Russia, about 110 km (70 miles) west of Moscow: scene of a battle (1812) in which Napoleon defeated the Russians but irreparably weakened his army
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Noun1.Borodino - Napoleon defeated the Russians in 1812 in a pitched battle at a village in western Russia west of Moscow, but irreparably weakened his army
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; 1799-1815
Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, Soviet Russia, Russia - formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia


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After Smolensk Napoleon sought a battle beyond Dorogobuzh at Vyazma, and then at Tsarevo-Zaymishche, but it happened that owing to a conjunction of innumerable circumstances the Russians could not give battle till they reached Borodino, seventy miles from Moscow.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Borodino looked like the Old World headsman, clad in terrible red, and carrying the ax for the execution of the criminal.
The Man Who Knew Too Much by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
At last all our watch-dogs are encamped at Borodino.
The Country Doctor by de Balzac, Honore View in context
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