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| commander1 = {{flagicon|First French Empire}} [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon I]]<br/> {{flagicon|First French Empire}} [[Jean Lannes]]

| commander2 = {{flagicon|Russian Empire}} [[Levin August von Bennigsen]]

| strength1 = 56,000-80,000<br/>118 cannons<ref>Pigeard, Alain - „Dictionnaire de la Grande Armée”, Tallandier, Bibliothèque Napoléonienne, 2004, pag. 671-672.</ref><ref name=Chandler>Chandler, 1999: 161</ref><ref name = Dowling>Dowling T. C. Russia at War: From the Mongol Conquest to Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Beyond. ABC-CLIO. 2014. P. 279: "Napoleon, with 80,000 men and 118 cannon".</ref><ref name=Chandler2>Chandler, D. ''The Campaigns of Napoleon''. Scribner, 1966, p. 576.</ref><ref name=Tucker1055>Tucker S. C. A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East. ABC-CLIO. 2009. P. 1055: "The Battle of Friedland of June 14, 1807, pits Napoleon with 80,000 men against Bennigsen with only 60,000".</ref><ref>Hickman, Kennedy. "Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Friedland." ThoughtCo, Aug. 28, 2020, thoughtco.com/napoleonic-wars-battle-of-friedland-2361111.</ref><ref name=Emsley>Emsley C. Napoleonic Europe. Routledge. 2014. P. 236</ref><ref name = Nicholls>Nicholls D. Napoleon: A Biographical Companion. ABC-CLIO. 1999. P. 105: "Some 50,000 Russians under Levin von Bennigsen faced 80,000 of the Grande Armée".</ref>

| strength2 = 46,000-84,000<br/>120 cannons<ref name=Chandler /><ref name=Dowling279>Dowling T. C. Russia at War: From the Mongol Conquest to Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Beyond. ABC-CLIO. 2014. P. 279</ref><ref name = Tucker1055 /><ref>Hickman, Kennedy. "Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Friedland." ThoughtCo, Aug. 28, 2020, thoughtco.com/napoleonic-wars-battle-of-friedland-2361111.</ref><ref name = Emsley /><ref name = Sandler>Sandler S. Ground Warfare: An International Encyclopedia, Volume 1. ABC-CLIO. 2002. P. 304: "Friedland... A battle in East Prussia between French forces, ultimately numbering 80,000, commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte, and Russian forces, numbering about 46,000 under Levin, Count Bennigsen".</ref><ref>Pigeard, Alain - „Dictionnaire de la Grande Armée”, Tallandier, Bibliothèque Napoléonienne, 2004, pag. 671-672.</ref>

| casualties1 = 8,000<ref name=Chandler582>Chandler 1995 p. 582.</ref>–10,000<ref>Fisher, Todd & Fremont-Barnes, Gregory. ''The Napoleonic Wars: The Rise and Fall of an Empire''. Osprey Publishing, 2004, p. 90</ref>

| casualties2 = 20,000<ref name=Chandler582 />-40,000<ref>Fisher, 2001: 78</ref> killed, wounded and captured,<br/>80 guns<ref name=Chandler582/>