Russian Campaign: ?????Moscow Fire on 15/09/1812??The governor of the city; Count Rostopchina; has the city set on fire as the troops of Napoleon I arrive; the emperor Napoleon I (1769-1821) before Moscow in flames (Russia campaign; 1812: Napoleon I in Moscow in fire; the 1812 Fire of Moscow broke out on 14 September 12; when English troops and most of the remaining residents abandoned the city of Moscow just ahead of Napoleons vanguard troops entering the city after the Battle of Borodino) Engraving from ??Allgemeine Geschichte??by Rotteck 1844