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    Jena–Auerstedt 3 2 1    The Battle of Eylau, or Battle of Preussisch-Eylau, was a bloody and strategically inconclusive battle on 7 and 8 February 1807 between...
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    strategic necessity after the Battle of Eylau earlier in 1807 had failed to yield a decisive verdict for either side. The battle began when Bennigsen noticed...
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  • following units and commanders fought in the Battle of Eylau of the Napoleonic Wars. Emperor Napoleon I of France Marshal Davout Marshal Soult Marshal...
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    Napoléon on the Battlefield of Eylau (French: Napoléon sur le champ de bataille d'Eylau) is an oil painting of 1808 by French Romantic painter Antoine-Jean...
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  • Eylau can refer to: Battle of Eylau during the Napoleonic Wars in 1807 Bagrationovsk (Preußisch Eylau) in Russia, until 1945 in East Prussia, Germany...
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    Pyotr Bagration (category Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Second Degree)
    obstinately at the battles of Eylau (7 February), Heilsberg (11 June), and Friedland (14 June). He was successful as commander of both Russia's Finnish...
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    Jean-Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul (category Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour)
    Joachim Murat; he was killed in Murat's massive cavalry charge of the Battle of Eylau in 1807. Born in an ancient noble family from the Languedoc, he...
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  • The Battle of Eylau was a battle of the Thirteen Years' War, that took place on 25 May 1455, near the town of Eylau (now Iława, Poland). It was fought...
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    War of the Fourth Coalition 200km 125miles Friedland 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 Eylau 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 Berlin 7 6 5 4 Jena–Auerstedt 3 2...
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    Russian frontier, where they fought an inconclusive battle against the Russians at the Battle of Eylau on 7–8 February 1807. Napoleon's advance on the Russian...
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    Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (category Recipients of the Order of St. George of the First Degree)
    himself at the Battle of Pułtusk that same year. He was wounded at the Battle of Eylau in 1807 while his troops were covering the retreat of the Russian...
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    Levin August von Bennigsen (category Recipients of the Order of St. George of the First Degree)
    brought him the Order of St. George of the Second Degree while after the battle of Eylau he was awarded Order of St. Andrew — the highest order in the...
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    Tirailleurs du Po (category Regiments of the First French Empire)
    distinction in the early campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. Actions included the Battle of Austerlitz, Jena, Eylau, Heilsberg, and Wagram, where both units...
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  • following is a list of the casualties count in battles or offensives in world history. The list includes both sieges (not technically battles but usually yielding...
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    Anton Wilhelm von L'Estocq (category Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Third Degree)
    known for his command of the Prussian troops at the Battle of Eylau. L'Estocq was born in Celle, Electorate of Hanover, the son of a Huguenot Prussian officer...
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    During his five years as a Marshal of the Empire (1809–1814), Nicolas-Charles Oudinot received seven of a total of 34 battle wounds suffered throughout his...
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    the Battle of Eylau, the Battle of Aspern, and the Battle of Wagram French forces included 214 battalions of infantry, 317 squadrons of cavalry and 587 artillery...
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    Antoine-Jean Gros (category 19th-century painters of historical subjects)
    made a member of the Legion of Honour on 22 October 1808 by Napoleon, after the Salon of 1808, where he had exhibited the Battle of Eylau. Gros had many...
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    Georges Washington de La Fayette (category Members of the Chamber of Deputies of the Bourbon Restoration)
    the Battle of Pozzolo in 1800. Later, he was aide-de-camp to General Grouchy at the Battle of Eylau, 1807, where he gave up his horse, at the risk of his...
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    plundering of Berlin took place. The subsequent Battle of Eylau, the Battle of Friedland and the Treaty of Tilsit compelled Prussia to cede large portions of its...
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    Preußisch Eylau, lit. 'Prussian Eylau'; Polish: Pruska Iława or Iławka; Lithuanian: Ylava or Prūsų Ylava) is a town and the administrative center of Bagrationovsky...
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    War of the Fourth Coalition 200km 125miles Friedland 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 Eylau 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 Berlin 7 6 5 4 Jena–Auerstedt 3 2...
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    Napoleon (redirect from Napoleon of France)
    through Poland and fought a bloody stalemate at the Battle of Eylau in February 1807. After a period of rest and consolidation on both sides, the war restarted...
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    February 8 – Battle of Eylau: Napoleon fights a hard but inconclusive battle against the Russians under Bennigsen. February 10 – The Survey of the Coast...
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    Antoine-Henri Jomini (category French military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars)
    the Battle of Jena and at the Battle of Eylau, where he won the cross of the Legion of Honour. After the Peace of Tilsit, Jomini was made chief of the...
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    Vukassovich, Vécsey, and d'Aspré. Just as in the bloody Battle of Eylau, Wagram was a battle in which Napoleon failed to score an uncontested victory...
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    looking for the 1521 Siege of Allenstein. War of the Fourth Coalition 200km 125miles Friedland 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 Eylau 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11...
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    renown in the battles of Eylau and Friedland. Napoleon left him as governor-general of the newly created Duchy of Warsaw following the Treaties of Tilsit in...
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    Gerhard von Scharnhorst (category Prussian Ministers of War)
    at Eylau (February 1807) he received the highest Prussian military order Pour le Mérite. It was apparent that Scharnhorst's skills exceeded those of a...
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    Hans Karl von Diebitsch (category Recipients of the Order of St. George of the First Degree)
    fought at Eylau and Friedland, and after Friedland was promoted captain. During the next five years of peace, he devoted himself to the study of military...
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