Dakarun Faransa Napoleon ne ya fara kai wa Rasha hari don tilastawa Rasha komawa cikin katange Nahiyar da Burtaniya ta yi.A ranar 24 ga Yuni 1812 da kwanaki masu zuwa, igiyar farko ta Grande Armée ta ketare kan iyaka zuwa Rasha tare da sojoji kusan 400,000-450,000, sojojin fage na Rasha sun kai kusan 180,000-200,000 a wannan lokacin.Ta hanyar jerin jerin jerin gwanon tilastawa, Napoleon ya tura sojojinsa da sauri ta yammacin Rasha a wani yunƙuri marar amfani na lalata sojojin Rasha na Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, wanda ya lashe yakin Smolensk a watan Agusta.A karkashin sabon Kwamandan da ke karkashin Mikhail Kutuzov, sojojin Rasha sun ci gaba da ja da baya wajen yin amfani da yakin da ake yi da Napoleon wanda ya tilasta wa maharan dogaro da tsarin samar da kayayyaki wanda ba zai iya ciyar da dimbin sojojinsu a fagen ba.A ranar 14 ga Satumba, Napoleon da sojojinsa na kimanin mutane 100,000 sun mamaye birnin Moscow, amma sai aka yi watsi da shi, kuma birnin ya ci gaba da cin wuta.Daga cikin ainihin sojojin 615,000, kawai 110,000 masu sanyi da masu fama da yunwa sun koma cikin Faransa.Nasarar da Rasha ta samu kan Sojojin Faransa a shekara ta 1812 ta kasance babbar illa ga burin Napoleon na mamaye Turai.Wannan yakin shine dalilin da ya sa sauran kawancen kawance suka yi nasara sau daya a kan Napoleon.Sojojinsa sun lalace kuma hankalinsu ya ragu, duka ga sojojin Faransa har yanzu a Rasha, suna fafatawa kafin yaƙin ya ƙare, da kuma sojojin da ke wasu fagage.