From 1803 to 1804, he served in the Caucasus under
Pavel Tsitsianov and Gulyakov. 's
The Allied Bakers, illustrating the final defeat of
Napoleon He commanded the composite grenadiers division in Prince
Petr Bagration's Second Western Army during
Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812. At the
Battle of Borodino, his division was on the front line and was attacked by three French divisions under Marshal
Davout. Of the 4,000 men in his division, only 300 survived the battle. Vorontsov was wounded but recovered to rejoin the army in 1813. He commanded a new grenadiers division and fought at the
Battle of Dennewitz and the
Battle of Leipzig. At the
Battle of Craonne, his corps was able to give a fit rebuff to Napoleon, however, the battle ended with the Russian retreat, it is considered "
Pyrrhic", but a victory for Napoleon. He was the commander of the corps of occupation in France from 1815 to 1818. On 7 May 1823, he was appointed
governor-general of
New Russia, as the southern provinces of the empire were then called, and
namestnik of
Bessarabia. At the start of the
Russo-Turkish War of 1828–1829, Vorontsov succeeded the wounded
Menshikov as commander of the forces
besieging Varna, which he captured on 28 September 1828. Due to his energetic efforts, the
plague, which had broken out in the
Ottoman Empire, did not spread into Russia. In 1844, Vorontsov was appointed commander-in-chief and
viceroy of the Caucasus (for military details see
Murid War). At the
Battle of Dargo (1845), he was nearly defeated and barely fought his way out of the Chechen forest. By 1848, he had captured two-thirds of
Dagestan, and the situation of the Russians in the Caucasus, which had long been almost desperate, was steadily improving. For his campaign against
Shamil, and for his difficult march through the dangerous forests of
Ichkeria, he was raised to the dignity of prince, with the title of Serene Highness. At the beginning of 1853, Vorontsov was allowed to retire because of his increasing infirmities. He was made a field-marshal in 1856, and died the same year at Odessa. His archives were published, in 40 volumes, by
Pyotr Bartenev between 1870 and 1897. ==Personal life==