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Battle of Ostrovno, the Glossary

The Battle of Ostrovno (Combat d'Ostrowno) was a military engagement that took place on 25 July 1812, between French forces under the command of King of Naples Joachim Murat and Russian forces under General Ostermann-Tolstoy and ended with the Russian forces retreating from the battlefield.^[1]

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1812 in the Russian Empire
Battles of the French invasion of Russia
July 1812 events
Military history of Belarus
Mogilev Governorate

Albrecht Adam

Albrecht Adam (16 April 1786 – 28 August 1862) was a Bavarian painter, who accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte during the 1812 Russian campaign.

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Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy

Count Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy (Osterman-Tolstoy;; 1770 – 12 February 1857) was a Russian nobleman and soldier in the era of the French Revolutionary Wars.

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Alexis Joseph Delzons

Alexis Joseph Delzons (1775October 24, 1812) was a French general of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.

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Antoine-Louis Decrest de Saint-Germain

Antoine-Louis Decrest de Saint-Germain, Count de Saint-Germain and of the Empire (born 8 December 1761 in Paris, died 4 October 1835 in Neuilly) was a French soldier of the French Revolutionary Wars, who later rose to the top military rank of General of Division, taking part to the Napoleonic Wars as a commander of cavalry.

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Astrowna

Astrowna or Ostrovno (Astroŭna; Островно; Ostrowno) is an agrotown in Beshankovichy District, Vitebsk Region, Belarus.

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Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty

Étienne-Marie-Antoine Champion, comte de Nansouty (30 May 1768 – 12 February 1815) was a French cavalry commander during the French Revolutionary Wars who rose to the rank of General of Division in 1803 and subsequently held important military commands during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Battle of Berezina

The Battle of (the) Berezina (or Beresina) took place from 26 to 29 November 1812, between Napoleon's Grande Armée and the Imperial Russian Army under Field Marshal Wittgenstein and Admiral Chichagov. Battle of Ostrovno and Battle of Berezina are 1812 in the Russian Empire, battles involving the Russian Empire, battles of the French invasion of Russia and military history of Belarus.

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Battle of Borodino

The Battle of Borodino took place near the village of Borodino on during Napoleon's invasion of Russia. Battle of Ostrovno and Battle of Borodino are 1812 in the Russian Empire, battles involving the Russian Empire, battles of the French invasion of Russia and Joachim Murat.

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Battle of Gorodechno

The Battle of Gorodechno took place between an army of the Austrian and Saxon allies of Napoleonic France under the command of the Prince of Schwarzenberg and Russian troops under Alexander Tormasov at Gorodechno, a town in Kobrinsky Uyezd, Grodno Governorate (now Pruzhany District, Brest Region in Belarus). Battle of Ostrovno and Battle of Gorodechno are 1812 in the Russian Empire, battles involving the Russian Empire and battles of the French invasion of Russia.

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Battle of Maloyaroslavets

The Battle of Maloyaroslavets took place on 24 October 1812 as part of the French invasion of Russia. Battle of Ostrovno and Battle of Maloyaroslavets are 1812 in the Russian Empire, battles involving the Russian Empire and battles of the French invasion of Russia.

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Battle of Saltanovka

The Battle of Saltanovka, also known as the Battle of Mogilev (French: Bataille de Mogilev), took place on 23 July 1812 during the early stages of the 1812 French invasion of Russia. Battle of Ostrovno and Battle of Saltanovka are 1812 in the Russian Empire, battles involving the Russian Empire, battles of the French invasion of Russia, July 1812 events, military history of Belarus and Mogilev Governorate.

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Battle of Smolensk (1812)

The Battle of Smolensk was the first major battle of the French invasion of Russia. Battle of Ostrovno and battle of Smolensk (1812) are 1812 in the Russian Empire, battles involving the Russian Empire and battles of the French invasion of Russia.

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Battle of Vitebsk (1812)

The battle of Vitebsk, sometimes spelled Witepsk, was a military engagement that took place on 26 and 27 July 1812 during the French invasion of Russia. Battle of Ostrovno and battle of Vitebsk (1812) are 1812 in the Russian Empire, battles involving the Russian Empire, battles of the French invasion of Russia and July 1812 events.

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Belarus

Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.

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Beshankovichy

Beshankovichy (Biešankovičy; Beshenkovichi; Bieszenkowicze) is an urban-type settlement in Vitebsk Region, Belarus.

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Charles Claude Jacquinot

Charles Claude Jacquinot (3 August 1772 – 24 April 1848) commanded a French cavalry division at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

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Chasseur

Chasseur, a French term for "hunter", is the designation given to certain regiments of French and Belgian light infantry (chasseurs à pied) or light cavalry (chasseurs à cheval) to denote troops trained for rapid action.

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Chevau-léger

The Chevau-légers (from French cheval—horse—and léger—light) was a generic French name for units of light and medium cavalry.

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Convention of Tauroggen

The Convention of Tauroggen was an armistice signed 30 December 1812 at Tauragė (now Lithuania) between General Ludwig Yorck on behalf of his Prussian troops and General Hans Karl von Diebitsch of the Imperial Russian Army. Battle of Ostrovno and Convention of Tauroggen are 1812 in the Russian Empire.

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Cuirassier

Cuirassiers were cavalry equipped with a cuirass, sword, and pistols.

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Dragoon

Dragoons were originally a class of mounted infantry, who used horses for mobility, but dismounted to fight on foot.

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Emperor of the French

Emperor of the French (French: Empereur des Français) was the title of the monarch and supreme ruler of the First and the Second French Empires.

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Engagement (military)

A military engagement is a combat between two forces, neither larger than a division nor smaller than a company, in which each has an assigned or perceived mission.

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Eugène de Beauharnais

Eugène Rose de Beauharnais (3 September 1781 – 21 February 1824) was a French nobleman, statesman, and military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.

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First French Empire

The First French Empire, officially the French Republic, then the French Empire after 1809 and also known as Napoleonic France, was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.

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French invasion of Russia

The French invasion of Russia, also known as the Russian campaign (Campagne de Russie) and in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 (Otéchestvennaya voyná 1812 góda), was initiated by Napoleon with the aim of compelling the Russian Empire to comply with the continental blockade of the United Kingdom. Battle of Ostrovno and French invasion of Russia are 1812 in the Russian Empire and battles of the French invasion of Russia.

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French occupation of Moscow

French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte's Grande Armée occupied Moscow from 14 September to 19 October 1812 during the Napoleonic Wars. Battle of Ostrovno and French occupation of Moscow are 1812 in the Russian Empire.

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Grande Armée

paren) was the main military component of the French Imperial Army commanded by Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte during the Napoleonic Wars. From 1804 to 1808, it won a series of military victories that allowed the French Empire to exercise unprecedented control over most of Europe. Widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest fighting forces ever assembled, it suffered enormous losses during the disastrous Peninsular War followed by the invasion of Russia in 1812, after which it never recovered its strategic superiority and ended in total defeat for Napoleonic France by the Peace of Paris in 1815.

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Heavy cavalry

Heavy cavalry was a class of cavalry intended to deliver a battlefield charge and also to act as a tactical reserve; they are also often termed shock cavalry.

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Hippolyte Piré

Hippolyte-Marie-Guillaume de Rosnyvinen, Comte de Piré, (Rennes, 31 March 1778 – Paris, 20 July 1850) was a French general who fought in the Napoleonic Wars.

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Jean Tulard

Jean Tulard (born 22 December 1933, Paris) is a French academic and historian.

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Jean-Baptiste Broussier

Jean-Baptiste Broussier (10 March 1766 – 13 December 1814) was a French Divisional General of the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.

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Joachim Murat

Joachim Murat (also,; Gioacchino Murat; 25 March 1767 – 13 October 1815) was a French military commander and statesman who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.

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Kingdom of Naples

The Kingdom of Naples (Regnum Neapolitanum; Regno di Napoli; Regno 'e Napule), was a state that ruled the part of the Italian Peninsula south of the Papal States between 1282 and 1816.

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Kingdom of Naples (Napoleonic)

The Kingdom of Naples (Regno di Napoli; Regno 'e Napule; Royaume de Naples) was a French client state in southern Italy created in 1806 when the Bourbon Ferdinand IV & III of Naples and Sicily sided with the Third Coalition against Napoleon and was in return ousted from his kingdom by a French invasion.

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Leo Tolstoy

Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as, which corresponds to the romanization Lyov.

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Light cavalry

Light cavalry comprised lightly armed and armored cavalry troops mounted on fast horses, as opposed to heavy cavalry, where the mounted riders (and sometimes the warhorses) were heavily armored.

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Light infantry

Light infantry refers to certain types of lightly equipped infantry throughout history.

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List of battles of the French invasion of Russia

This is a list of sieges, land and naval battles of the French invasion of Russia (24 June – 14 December 1812). Battle of Ostrovno and list of battles of the French invasion of Russia are battles of the French invasion of Russia.

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Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg

Johann David Ludwig Graf Yorck von Wartenburg (born von Yorck; 26 September 1759 – 4 October 1830) was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall instrumental in the Kingdom of Prussia ending an alliance with France to one with Russia during the War of the Sixth Coalition.

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Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly

Prince Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (baptised –) was a Russian Field Marshal who figured prominently in the Napoleonic Wars.

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Mogilev Governorate

Mogilev Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Northwestern Krai of the Russian Empire.

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Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ostrovno

Also known as Battle of Ostrowno, Battle of Ostrowo.

Battle of Ostrovno, the Glossary

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See also

1812 in the Russian Empire

Battles of the French invasion of Russia

July 1812 events

Military history of Belarus

Mogilev Governorate

References