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Charles Minard's 1869 infographic showing the devastating losses of Napoleon's army in the 1812 Russian campaign. A thick tan band shows the army advancing to Moscow, and a thin black band shows the catastrophic losses during the retreat. A graph below plots the plummeting t: Charles Minard's 1869 data visualization of Napoleon's Russian campaign. The image has two main parts. The top part is a flow map on a stylized geographical background. A wide, tan-colored band begins on the left at the Niemen River and moves right towards Moscow, representing the advance of Napoleon's army. The width of the band is proportional to the number of soldiers. As the army advances, the band slightly narrows, and numbers along the path indicate the decreasing army size. From Moscow, a thin black band shows the army's retreat, moving from right to left. This black band narrows dramatically, becoming a tiny sliver by the time it reaches the starting point, visually representing the catastrophic loss of human life. The bottom part is a line graph connected by vertical lines to the retreat path on the map above. This graph plots the temperature against dates during the retreat. The line shows the temperature consistently dropping far below zero, providing a clear visual explanation for th
January 11, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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