Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Czarnovo (Campaign of Friedland).

Fought December 24, 1806, between the French under Napoleon, and the Russians, about 15,000 strong, under Count Tolstoy. Napoleon, with Davoust's corps, crossed the Ukra, and made a night attack upon the Russians, driving them out of Czarnovo with a loss of 1,600 and several guns. The French lost 700.