Jul 23, 2010 · Pause a moment to ponder the horrific human cost represented by this map: Napoleon entered Russia with 442.000 men, took Moscow with only 100.000 men left, wandered around its abandoned ruins...

Charles Minard's map of Napoleon 's disastrous Russian campaign of 1812. The graphic is notable for its representation in two dimensions of six types of data: the number of Napoleon's troops; distance; temperature; the latitude and longitude; direction of travel; and location relative to specific dates. [5]

Mar 22, 2019 · The Frenchman Charles-Joseph Minard’s figurative maps of the French army’s loss during Napoleon’s campaign against Russia in 1812-13 is one of the field’s classics.

Jun 8, 2014 · In The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte calls Minard’s graphic of Napoleon in Russia one of the “best statistical drawings ever created.”

Jun 26, 2024 · Figurative Map of the successive losses in men of the French Army in the Russian campaign 1812–1813. Drawn up by M. Minard, Inspector General of Bridges and Roads in retirement.

Mar 16, 2017 · Charles Minard pioneered several thematic mapping techniques. The maps in this image depict the origin and amount of cotton imported into Europe in 1858, 1864, and 1865. He’s known for his...

May 26, 2013 · Minard’s chart shows six types of information: geography, time, temperature, the course and direction of the army’s movement, and the number of troops remaining. The widths of the gold (outward) and black (returning) paths represent …

Mar 16, 2017 · Minard’s renowned graphic of Napoleon’s 1812 march on Moscow (lower image) is paired here with a visualization of Hannibal’s famous military campaign of 218 BC (upper image).

This map, drawn by French engineer Charles Joseph Minard, shows Napoleon’s disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812, three years before the Battle of Waterloo. Click here to see a larger version. The orange and black columns crossing the map show the French Grande Armée on its march to and from Moscow.

“The map that made a nation cry”: Depicting the Grande Armée’s great disaster by geography, time, and temperature, Minard’s famous map from 1869 is one of the earliest examples of a flow map.