Fenestella
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Is there any lesson from Mongol victory over Rus' that might be helpful for Napoleon to plan and conduct his Russian campaign?
Is there any lesson from Mongol victory over Rus' that might be helpful for Napoleon to plan and conduct his Russian campaign?
The conditions are too hard to speculate upon if we ignore the massive ammounts of butterflies.
Because, even if the Golden Horde manages to survive up to the 19th century and is invaded by a Napoleon-like figure, it is most probable that they won't remain as nomadic horse archers when it comes to warfare. They'll probably adopt gunpowder.
I mean, sure, this Napoleon-expy could capitalize on the russian vassal states of the GH switching sides to his own, but that would imply that such russian statelets were left to grow unchecked in their military prowess by a rather stupid GH leadership.
My bad, sorry then.That's pretty clearly not what the OP meant. They were just asking if there were tactical or strategic lessons from the OTL Mongol invasion of Russia that Napoleon could have made better use of in his OTL invasion of Russia. No more, no less.
The easiest way to force ;the Russians to come back to the table was to carve out a great part of their conquests of the 18th century.