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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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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.
- ↑
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
.