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Danzig capitulated on 24 May 1807. Napoleon then ordered the siege of the nearby Weichselmünde fort, but Kamensky had fled with his troops, and the garrison capitulated shortly afterwards. The battle cost the French 6,000 killed and wounded, [3] while the Prussians lost 3,000 killed, wounded and sick, and the Russians 1,500. [4]
Battle of Oliva 1627: naval battle in the vicinity of Oliwa (currently part of Gdańsk) Siege of Danzig (1655–1660): Unsuccessful siege by Swedish forces in the Deluge; Siege of Danzig (1734): Russians capture the city during the War of the Polish Succession; Siege of Danzig (1807): French capture the city from Prussians during the War of the ...
After the defeat of the Fourth Coalition, and the capture of the city by French, Polish and Italian troops, Napoleon Bonaparte created the semi-independent Free City of Danzig (1807–1814). Danzig reverted to Prussia after Napoleon's defeat in 1814, following another siege that lasted almost a whole year.
Battle of Ostrołęka (1807) 16 Feb: French defeat Russians Anglo-Turkish War: Dardanelles Operation: 19 Feb: A failed British attempt against the coastal fortifications of the Ottoman capital of Constantinople: Franco-Swedish War and War of the Fourth Coalition: Great Sortie of Stralsund: 1–3 April: Sweden pushes the French Army out of ...
On 24 May 1807, the Siege of Danzig ended when Prussian General Friedrich Adolf, Count von Kalckreuth capitulated to French Marshal François Joseph Lefebvre.This gave Napoleon the opportunity to engage the Russian forces led by Levin August von Bennigsen and then Andrei Ivanovich Gorchakov.
François Joseph Lefebvre, Duke of Danzig (/ l ə ˈ f ɛ v r ə / lə-FEV-rə, French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʒozɛf ləfɛvʁ]; 25 October 1755 – 14 September 1820) [1] was a French military commander of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, and one of the original eighteen Marshals of the Empire created by Napoleon.
The battle is included in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. [33] The Battle of Eylau forms the early part of the novel The Schirmer Inheritance (1953) by Eric Ambler. The brutal battle and its immediate aftermath are depicted from the point of view of an ordinary soldier, a Prussian cavalry sergeant, who is severely wounded by a French saber in the ...
Charge of the French Cuirassiers at Friedland on 14 June 1807. 1807, Friedland by Ernest Meissonier, c. 1875. The course of the previous operations meant that both armies still had large detachments out towards Königsberg. The emperor spent the afternoon in forming up the newly arrived masses, the deployment being covered by an artillery ...