Minard Map

[Wilhammer]

I just came across this rather interesting statistical map regarding the forces to and from Russia.



The Written Details

[Adlertag]

Thanks, we already have this map on the thread below (post n°18), where a discussion has started about temperatures and their effects. It's true, few people know this awesome map.

Correction : the map in based on Reaumur degree, but nearly equivalent to Celcius -> 1 °Ré = 5/4 °C.

http://www.ageod-forum.com/showthread.php?t=7115

[Wilhammer]

Thanks for pointing me to that thread. I swear, I searched before I posted it

The map is stunning in its depiction of attrition - have similar graphs been done for other wars/campaigns?

[Adlertag]

Minard is the "king" of "figuratives" maps for his period.

See this web site, but some maps are really small to be exploited... leure:

http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/minbib.html

[Kev_uk]

Thanks for pointing me to that thread. I swear, I searched before I posted it

The map is stunning in its depiction of attrition - have similar graphs been done for other wars/campaigns?

It also brings home the total destruction of the Grande Armee...look how many returned from a force of nearly half a million. I guess that the Russian Campaign really did herald in the age of total war. Unprecedented.

[Va Yankee]

Coincidentally, this print was my Christmas present from my eldest son.

FYI, his source was Graphics Press LLC in Cheshire, Conn. and it is recognized as "perhaps the best statistical graphic ever drawn".

Web site is http://www.tufte.com

[Adlertag]

The original collection of Minard's maps is held by the ENPC (Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées : National school of bridges and roads) in Paris.