Atlas of Battles

commander, 15 engagements

Battles of Levin August von Bennigsen

Battles of Levin August von Bennigsen

German-Russian general, 1745 to 1826

Levin August von Bennigsen is recorded as a commander at 15 placed engagements in the atlas between 1794 and 1813: 13 battles and 2 sieges across 4 present-day countries, most in Poland (7), Russia (4), Germany (3). Taken in date order, the sites lie 8,356 km apart end to end, 597 km between engagements on average. Most belong to War of the Fourth Coalition (7), War of the Sixth Coalition (2), Napoleonic Wars (1).

Battle of LipniszkiBattle of Derbent (1796)Storming of DerbentBattle of PułtuskBattle of MohrungenBattle of AllensteinBattle of OstrołękaBattle of Guttstadt-DeppenBattle of TarutinoSiege of HamburgBattle of EylauBattle of HeilsbergBattle of FriedlandBattle of LützenBattle of BautzenBattle of EylauBattle of HeilsbergBattle of FriedlandBattle of LützenBattle of BautzenBerlinKyivViennaAnkaraMilanNaplesBucharestHamburgBudapestMunich1000 km48.617N, 29.144E
15 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1794: 1 engagements1796: 2 engagements1806: 1 engagements1807: 7 engagements7 in 18071812: 1 engagements1813: 3 engagements17941813
15 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Battle of Lipniszki, 1794Battle of Derbent (1796), 1796Storming of Derbent, 1796Battle of Pułtusk, 1806Battle of Mohrungen, 1807Battle of Allenstein, 1807Battle of Eylau, 1807Battle of Ostrołęka, 1807Battle of Guttstadt-Deppen, 1807Battle of Heilsberg, 1807Battle of Friedland, 1807Battle of Tarutino, 1812Battle of Lützen, 1813Battle of Bautzen, 1813Siege of Hamburg, 181317941813
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 4

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
27 May 1794Battle of LipniszkiLipniški, BelarusRussian victory
1796Battle of Derbent (1796)Derbent, Russia2,131 km SERussian victory
1796Storming of DerbentDerbent, Russia0 km NRussian victory
26 December 1806Battle of PułtuskPułtusk, Poland2,346 km NWFrench victory
25 January 1807Battle of MohrungenMorąg, Poland154 km NWFrench victory
3 February 1807Battle of AllensteinOlsztyn, Poland31 km EFrench victory
7 February 1807Battle of EylauKaliningrad, Poland62 km NImperial French Victory
15 February 1807Battle of OstrołękaOstrołęka, Poland159 km SEFrench victory
7 June 1807Battle of Guttstadt-DeppenDobre Miasto, Poland127 km NWSee aftermath
10 June 1807Battle of HeilsbergLidzbark Warmiński, Poland19 km NEInconclusive
14 June 1807Battle of FriedlandPravdinsk, Russia47 km NEFrench victory
18 October 1812Battle of TarutinoTarutino, Russia1,025 km ERussian victory
2 May 1813Battle of LützenGroßgörschen, Germany1,701 km WFrench victory
20 May 1813Battle of BautzenBautzen, Germany156 km EFrench victory
December 1813Siege of HamburgHamburg, Germany399 km NWFrench victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, George Dawe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.