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Viva l'Empereur by Edouard Detaille. Napoleonic art
print of the 4th regiment of Hussars during a cavalry charge at the Battle
of Friedland, June 14th 1807. Military art print of French cavalry by
French military artist, Edouard Detaille.
Viva L Empereur after Detaille. Charge of the 4th Regiment of Hussars at the Battle of
Friedland, June
14th 1807.
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Viva L Empereur after Edouard Detaille.
Charge of the 4th Regiment of Hussars at the Battle of Friedland, June 14th 1807.
Open edition print. Image size 23 inches x 18 inches (58cm x 46cm). Price £43.00
Open edition print. Image size 12 inches x 9 inches (31cm x 23cm). Price £14.00
**Open edition print. (2 copies reduced to clear) Image size 23 inches x 18 inches (58cm x 46cm). Price £25.00
ITEM CODE DHM0325
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| Battle of Freidland. Due to the French
Pressure The Russian Commander General Levin Bennigsen moved his army back
to his main camp at Konigsberg in June 1807. While his army of 60,000 men
crossed the River Alle at Friedland. It was faced by a French force
of 26,000 under the command of Marshal Jean Lannes. The Russian Commander
attacked early on the 14th of June. The much smaller force fought of the Russian
attacks for nine hours, giving time for the main French force of 80,000 to
arrive. Marshall Ney's Force came up from the south. and attacked
thre Russian Left Flank which gave way all the way along the river until
just outside Friedland where it was holted. A second Corp under the
Command of General Laude Victor came to the support of Ney's left Flank.
Victor also brought up 30 Artillery pieces which blasted the Russian at
very short range. The Russians were massed in the tiny village and unable
to cross the River received huge numbers of Casualties due to the
artillery fire. General Bennigsens army was decimated with most of his
troops killed, wounded or forced to cross the river. The actual looses
were 11,000 dead, 7,000 wounded and many thousand of troops drowned trying
to cross the river. This compared to the French losses of 1372 killed
9,108 wounded. The French army slowing pursued the Russian's
with Marshal Soult occupying Konigsberg on June 16th. A few days
later Czar Alexander I arranged a truce and on the 25th of June on a barge
like raft on the River Niemen along with the Prussian King Frederick
Willaim III drwe up the Treaty of Tilset. Prussian ceded to France all the
territories West of the Elbe, becoming the Kingdom of Westphalia. and from
the area of Poland Both Russia and Prussia recognised the new state. The
Duchy of Warsaw. |
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