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War of the Fourth Coalition
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Part of the
Napoleonic Wars
and the
Coalition Wars
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Charles_Meynier_-_Napoleon_in_Berlin.png/220px-Charles_Meynier_-_Napoleon_in_Berlin.png) The French Army marches through Berlin in 1806.
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Date
| October 1806 ? July 1807
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Location
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Result
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Decisive French victory:
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Belligerents
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Fourth Coalition:
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France
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Commanders and leaders
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Frederick William III
Duke of Brunswick
†
Fredrick Louis
Prince Ferdinand
†
Eugene Fredrick
Ernst von Ruchel
Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher
Count Tauentzien
Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg
Count Kalckreuth
Anton Wilhelm
Alexander I
Levin August, Count von Bennigsen
Dmitry Golitsyn
Mikhail Kutuzov
Pyotr Bagration
Gustav IV Adolf
Hans von Essen
Lord Grenville
Duke of Portland
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Napoleon I
Louis-Alexandre Berthier
Louis-Nicolas Davout
Jean Lannes
Joachim Murat
Jean-de-Dieu Soult
Michel Ney
Pierre Augereau
Edouard Mortier
Jerome Bonaparte
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
Louis Bonaparte
Beauharnais
Jozef Poniatowski
Jan Henryk D?browski
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Strength
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200,000
140,000
20,000
20,000
10,000
Total: 390,000
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200,000
24,000
10,000
6,000
30,000
12,000?20,000
20,000?40,000
6,000
Total: 310,000
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Casualties and losses
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700,000 dead
[1]
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The
Fourth Coalition
fought in a war against
Napoleon
's
French Empire
from 1806?1807. The coalition was defeated.
Countries in the Coalition included
Prussia
,
Russia
,
Saxony
,
Sweden
, and
Great Britain
. Several members of the coalition had previously been fighting France in the
Third Coalition
, and there wasn't any peace in between wars. On October 9, 1806, Prussia joined a new coalition, fearing that France was becoming more powerful after it defeated
Austria
and established the
Confederation of the Rhine
. Prussia and Russia prepared for a new campaign. Prussian troops moved to Saxony.
On 14 October 1806, the French defeated the Prussian army at the
Battle of Jena-Auerstadt
. Then French forces
occupied
Prussia and captured
Berlin
. Later they advanced towards Poland and Russia. On 7-8 February 1807, the French and Russian armies fought the
Battle of Eylau
. There was no clear winner. On 14 June 1807, the French defeated the Russians at the
Battle of Friedland
. In July 1807, France made peace with Russia, ending the war. This left Napoleon as ruler of most of western and central Europe. The exceptions were Spain, Portugal, Austria, and a few smaller states. These were able to remain
independent
.
Even though the Fourth Coalition came to an end, Britain remained at war with France. Later that year, the
Peninsular War
started.
The participants of the War of the Fourth Coalition.
Blue
: The Coalition and their colonies and allies.
Green
: The
First French Empire
, its protectorates, colonies and allies.
- ↑
Clodfelter, M. (2017).
Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015
(4th ed.). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland.
ISBN
978-0786474707
.