 Complete the following phrase:  The French invasion of Russia of 1812 was a turning point, which reduced the French and allied invasion forces the Grande Armée to a tiny fraction of their initial strength and triggered a major shift in European politics, as it dramatically weakened the previously domit French position on the continent. After the disastrous invasion of Russia, a coalition of Austria, Prussia, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and a number of German States, and the rebels in Spain and Portugal united to battle France in the War of the Sixth Coalition. Two-and-a-half million troops fought in the conflict and the total dead amounted to as many as two million. This era included the battles of Smolensk, 