My knee jerk reaction to the poll question was to think about Napoleon. Then when you begin to disect the semantics, Russia may have won the battle, or at least Napoleon retreated, but I don't know about the entire war.

Well, as it turns out, the Americans don't think about it at all.

That's probably true for most. Not everybody, but most. I forgot to let you know, I asked some of the guys at the economics department at the university and I got a bunch of blank looks. So yeah, unless you're a student of history, it passes unnoticed.