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Bagrationovsk

(until 1946, Preisish-Eilau), a city and center of Bagrationovsk Raion, Kaliningrad Oblast, RSFSR. It has a railroad station 37 km south of Kaliningrad and a population of 4,300 (1968). There is a meat combine and a butter plant in the city. Founded in 1336. it was renamed in honor of the Russian general P. I. Bagration.

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Principal battles: Figueras (1794); Loano (1795); Montenotte (near Dego), Millesimo, Lodi, Castiglione delle Stiviere, Bassano del Grappa, Arcole (near Verona) (1796); Jena (1806); Eylau (Bagrationovsk) (1807); siege of Gerona (1809); Leipzig (1813); and Lyons (1814).

Augereau, Pierre Francois Charles, Duke of Castiglione (1757-1816)

Principal battles: siege of Ochakov (1788); siege of Warsaw (1794); Brescia (1799); Hollabrunn, Austerlitz (Slavkov) (1805); Eylau (Bagrationovsk), Heilsberg (Lidzbark Warminski), Friedland (Pravdinsk) (1807); Mogilev, Borodino (1812).

Bagration, Peter Ivanovich, Prince (1765-1812)

Principal battles: Pultusk (1806); Eylau (Bagrationovsk), Friedland (Pravdinsk) (1807); Borodino, Tarutino (1812); Leipzig (1813); blockade of Hamburg (1814).

Bennigsen, Count Levin August (1745-1826)

Principal battles: Rovereto (1796); Rivoli (1797); siege of Acre (Akko), Aboukir I (Abu Qir) (1799); Marengo (near Alessandria) (1800); Austerlitz (Slavkov) (1805); Jena (1806); Eylau (Bagrationovsk), Friedland (Pravdinsk) (1807); Medina del Rio Seco (Montamarta) (1808); Aspern-Essling, Wagram (1809); Fuentes de Onoro (1811); Borodino (1812); Rippach (near Weissenfels) (1813).

Bessieres, Jean-Baptiste (1768-1813)

Principal battles: Neerwinden (near Liege) (1793); the Pyramids (1798); Aboukir I (Abu Qir) (1799); Mariazell, Austerlitz (Slavkov) (1805); Auerstadt (near Weimar), Golymin (1806); Eylau (Bagrationovsk) (1807); Eckmuhl (Eggmuhl), Ratisbon (Regensburg), Wagram (1809); Smolensk, Borodino, Maloyaroslavetz (near Kaluga), Krasnoye (Smolensk region), Berezina River (1812); and Hamburg (1814).

Davout, Louis Nicolas, Duke of Auerstadt, Prince of Eckmuhl (1770-1823)

Principal battles: Novi (1799); Hohenlinden (near Munich) (1800); Eylau (Bagrationovsk), Friedland (Pravdinsk) (1807); Wagram (1809); Borodino, Maloyaroslavetz (near Kaluga), Krasnoye (Smolensk region) (1812); Vauchamps (near Montmirail), Craonne (1814); Ligny, Wavre (1815).

Grouchy, Emmanuel, Marquis of (1766-1847)

Principal battles: Austerlitz (Slavkov) (1805); Jena (1806); Eylau Friedland (Bagrationovsk) (1807); the Berezina (1812); Lutzen, Bautzen (1813); siege of Varna (1828).

Jomini, Antoine Henri, Baron de (1779-1869)

Principal battles: Rivoli (1797), the Pyramids (1798), Austerlitz (Slavkov) (1805); Prenzlau, Stettin (Szczecin) (1806); Eylau (Bagrationovsk) (1807); Medina de Rioseca (1808); Medellin (near Valdivia), Aspern-Essling, Raab (Gyor), Wagram (1809).

Lasalle, Count Antoine Charles Louis (1775-1809)