Napoleon entered Moscow in 1812, assuming that its fall would end the war and that Tsar Alexander I would negotiate peace. However, on orders of the city's military governor, Fyodor Rostopchin, rather than capitulating, Moscow was ordered burned. Within the month, fearing loss of control back in France, Napoleon left the Russian capital.
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