Eylau
February 7, 1807
In a snowstorm on the East Prussian plains, Napoleon fought the Russians and Prussians to a bloody standstill. Murat's heavy cavalry charged into the blizzard and saved the center. When the sun rose over frozen corpses, neither side had won. It was the first battle Napoleon had not decisively won, and a taste of things to come.
In context
Also in 1807 (5 other events on record)
- Britain Abolishes Slave Trade · Europe · Politics
- Fulton's Steamboat Clermont · North America · Technology
- Treaty of Tilsit · Europe · Politics
- Portuguese Court Flees to Brazil · South America · Politics
- Jefferson's Embargo · North America · Politics
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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