The French Invasion of Russia
To find information on this topic, you must first find primary sources through research.
Looking online for sources can be done through the UCR Library website. This is a research engine that can give you books, articles, and more. To get there you must fist go to this website.
It will look like this image.
The search engine is not available to everyone, so you must log into the school's Global Protect VPN per their instructions to gain access. It will look like a popup at the top of your computer.
Then, the topic I am researching is The French War On Russia, so I will first search this term in the subject field. A long list of results will show up for relevant books or articles that I may be able to use for your research analysis. A book I found that related to this is War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. This is a secondary source as it is not a witness account of the invasion.
- Tolstoy L. War and Peace. Penguin Books; 1973.
War and Peace is seen to be located at the Riviera Library. I am able to click map it to locate the exact floor and number of the book through the Dewy System.
I then did research through scholarly websites which told me that The Battle of Borodino was where Napoleon and Russia had both suffered severe losses and ended the invasion.
Website Citation:
“Napoleon: Napoleon at War.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/n_war/campaign/page_12.html. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
I would then go back to the UCR Library Catalogue and search up the key term "The Battle of Borodino". By doing this, I found the book called Blätter aus meinem Portefeuille, im Laufe des Feldzuges 1812 in Russland. English With Napoleon in Russia : the illustrated memoirs of Faber du Faur, 1812.
This is seen to also be available at the Riviera Library
Book Citation:
2. Faber du Faur CW von, North J. With Napoleon in Russia : The Illustrated Memoirs of Faber Du Faur, 1812. Greenhill Books; 2001.
The description of this book's genre is a personal narrative, therefore I know it is a first-hand account. The description states that it is also the writings of Faber du Faur who had been there during the war writing his story and drawing original pictures.
This makes the book a primary source, and I would be able to expand my research using this.
