This document discusses Charles Joseph Minard's famous 1869 graphic visualization of Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia and subsequent retreat from Moscow. The visualization uses a narrowing strip to represent Napoleon's army, which shrinks from over 400,000 soldiers to fewer than 10,000 to graphically depict the army's losses during the disastrous retreat from Moscow in the winter.

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19. Charles Joseph Minard, Napoleon's invasion of Moscow, Russia and the subsequent retreat to Poland