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Facts

Also Known As Battle of Auerstädt • Battle of Jena-Auerstädt
Date October 14, 1806
Location Germany • Jena • Saxony
Participants France • Prussia
Context Napoleonic Wars

Timeline

Battle of Lodi
May 10, 1796
The Battle of the Pyramids
Battle of the Pyramids
July 21, 1798
Nile, Battle of the
Battle of the Nile
August 1, 1798
War of the Oranges
April 1801 - June 1801
Battle of Copenhagen (1801)
Battle of Copenhagen
April 2, 1801
Treaty of Amiens
March 27, 1802
Battle of Ulm
September 25, 1805 - October 20, 1805
John Christian Schetky: The Battle of Trafalgar
Battle of Trafalgar
October 21, 1805
Antoine-Jean Gros: Meeting Between Napoleon I and Francis I After the Battle of Austerlitz, 4 December 1805
Battle of Austerlitz
December 2, 1805
Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth
Battle of Santo Domingo
February 6, 1806
Battle of Jena
October 14, 1806
Napoleon on the Battlefield at Eylau, February 1807
Battle of Eylau
February 7, 1807 - February 8, 1807
Ernest Meissonier: 1807, Friedland
Battle of Friedland
June 14, 1807
The Battle of Copenhagen
Battle of Copenhagen
August 15, 1807 - September 7, 1807
On May 2, 1808, by Francisco de Goya
Dos de Mayo Uprising
May 2, 1808
Peninsular War
Peninsular War
May 5, 1808 - March 1814
The Battle of Wagram, 7 July 1809
Battle of Wagram
July 5, 1809 - July 6, 1809
The Battle of Grand Port
Battle of Grand Port
August 22, 1810 - August 29, 1810
Peninsular War
Siege of Badajoz
March 16, 1812 - April 6, 1812
The Battle of Smolensk
Battle of Smolensk
August 16, 1812 - August 18, 1812
Battle of Dresden
August 26, 1813 - August 27, 1813
Battle of Leipzig
October 16, 1813 - October 19, 1813
Arthur Wellesley, The 1st Duke of Wellington
Battle of Toulouse
April 10, 1814
Battle of Waterloo
Battle of Waterloo
June 18, 1815

Key People

Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Napoleon I
emperor of France
Louis-Nicolas Davout, duc d'Auerstedt
Louis-Nicolas Davout, duke of Auerstedt
French general
Charles William Ferdinand of Brunswick
Charles William Ferdinand of Brunswick
Prussian noble
Friedrich Ludwig, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen
Friedrich Ludwig, prince zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen
Prussian field marshal

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