Battle of Friedland

When

14 Jun 1807

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

54.45° N, 21.02° E

Description

1807 battle during the War of the Fourth Coalition

1807 battle of the War of the Fourth Coalition

The Battle of Friedland was a major engagement of the Napoleonic Wars between the armies of the French Empire and the Russian Empire, led by Napoleon I and General Levin August von Bennigsen respectively. Napoleon and the French obtained a decisive victory that routed much of the Russian army, which retreated chaotically over the Alle river by the end of the fighting.

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• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of Friedland: Napoleon decisively defeats Bennigsen's Russian army”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Schlacht bei Friedland: Napoleon Bonaparte erreicht einen entscheidenden Sieg über das vereinigte russisch-preußische Heer”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “victoire de Napoléon à la bataille de Friedland”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “сражение под Фридландом, между французской армией под командованием Наполеона и русской армией под командованием генерала Беннигсена”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “弗里德蘭戰役，法軍擊敗俄軍。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “フリートラントの戦い。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• War of the Fourth CoalitionOct 1806 · War