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

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Winkovo (Moscow Campaign).

Fought October 18, 1812, when Murat, with 30,000 men, forming the advance-guard of the retiring French army, was attacked by the Russians, under Count Orloff Dennizoff, and driven from his position, with a loss of 2,000 killed, 1,500 prisoners, and all his baggage and artillery.