New Mapping Napoleon's Russian Invasion

Charles Minard was a pioneer of the purpose of graphics inwards applied scientific discipline as well as statistics. Probably his near famous creation was his flow-map of Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign.

There accept been a publish of attempts at recreating Minard's Napoleon motion flow-map using modern interactive online maps. Minard + Napoleon is likely the best endeavour yet. One argue the map is thence successful is that it overlays Minard's master copy flow-map as well as thence adds interactivity on top.

Minard's menstruum map visualizes the eastward march of Napoleon's army, showing where units divide off as well as rejoined, the declining size of the regular army as well as the freezing temperatures (by date). The Minard + Napoleon map has added interactivity to the master copy Minard map, which allows you lot to click on the flow-map to persuasion the appointment as well as equally good an interactive nautical chart plotting the regular army size past times date.


Napoleon's March is closed to other skilful endeavour at creating a modern slippy map visualization of the Napoleonic army's movements as well as dwindling size. The map includes interactive buttons along the flow-map which allows you lot to persuasion the publish of survivors past times location.

However this map doesn't include Minard's temperature nautical chart which visualizes the freezing temperatures faced past times Napoleon's regular army equally they pushed eastwards. The map equally good doesn't include the dates.

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