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Emperor Napoleon's French Grande Armée defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
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French general and politician, Emperor of the French (r. 1804–1814, 1815)
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Field army of the French Imperial Army
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1807 battle during the War of the Fourth Coalition
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War of the Fourth Coalition
1806–1807 conflict of the Napoleonic Wars
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