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Battle of Eylau

Battle of Eylau was a battle fought on 7 February 1807 at Kaliningrad, in what is now Poland; it lasted 1 day. It was part of the Napoleonic Wars, which ran from 1803 to 1815. The recorded result: Imperial French Victory.

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Battle of Eylau
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Fought7 February 1807lasted 1 day
WhereKaliningrad, Poland54.400N, 20.633E
OutcomeImperial French Victory
BelligerentsFrench First EmpireagainstRussian Empire; Kingdom of Prussia
Part ofNapoleonic Wars1803 to 1815

Where it sits in the Napoleonic Wars

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Record

Date7 February 1807
to 8 February 1807
PlaceKaliningrad, Poland
54.400N, 20.633E
KindBattle, Revolutionary and Napoleonic
Strength75,000: Napoleon: 45,000; Ney: 14,500; Davout: 15,000; 300 guns76,000–83,000: Bennigsen: 67,000; L'Estocq: 9,000; 400 guns
Casualties and losses15,000–29,643
Commanders
Battle of EylauBattle of EylauBattle of KrückenSiege of BartensteinBattle of FriedlandBattle of HeilsbergBattle of PokarwisBattle of KrückenSiege of BartensteinBattle of HeilsbergBattle of PokarwisGdańskGdyniaGrudziądzEłkSovetskOlsztynElbląg100 km54.400N, 20.633E
The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

The ground today

Relief of the ground around the site of Battle of Eylau
Relief within about 10.0 km of the site, contours every 10 m. Copernicus DEM GLO-30, ESA.
Satellite view of the site of Battle of Eylau today
The same ground from Sentinel-2 on 2024-10-18. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024.

The recorded site stands at about 57 m; within 10.0 km the ground runs from 39 to 162 m, 123 m of relief, gently rolling country and today it is 50% grassland, 31% tree cover, 15% cropland.

grassland: 50%tree cover: 31%cropland: 15%built-up: 4%grassland 50%tree cover 31%cropland 15%built-up 4%
west to east, 10.0 km52 to 105 mnorth to south, 10.0 km50 to 128 m
Elevation from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, Airbus); land cover from ESA WorldCover 2021 (CC BY 4.0), within about 5 km of the recorded site. Computed, not recorded.

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Combat data (CDB90)

Attacker: FR ARMYDefender: RUSS ARMY
Strength78,00080,000
Casualties18,500 (23.7%)28,000 (35.0%)
Mission accomplishment, 1 to 1066
Outcomedrawn
Duration1 day
Front width8 km8 km
Attacker advanced3.8 km

From the US Army Concepts Analysis Agency Database of Battles (CDB90, battle 120), public domain, in the CC0 tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold. Figures are the database's estimates, compiled in 1990 from published histories, and may differ from the Wikipedia infobox above.

Battle of Eylau is one of 3,507 engagements of the 19th century in the atlas and one of 469 in present-day Poland.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q331347, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Eylau, revision 1384855872, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.