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Battle of Friedland
Part of the War of the Fourth Coalition
Date14 June 1807
Location
Result Decisive French victory
Belligerents
France French Empire Russia Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Napoleon I Levin August von Bennigsen
Strength
80,000 men
118 cannons
60,000 men
120 cannons
Casualties and losses
8,000 killed and wounded 20,000 killed and wounded

The Battle of Friedland was the decisive engagement of the War of the Fourth Coalition during the Napoleonic Wars between the French Grande Armée commanded by Napoleon I and a Russian Army commanded by Bennigsen. It was fought on 14 June 1807 at Friedland about 27 miles (43 km) southeast of Königsberg (present-day Kalingrad) in Eastern Prussia.