page_title: Górowo Iławeckie
section_title: The Napoleonic era
hierarchical_section_title: Górowo Iławeckie / History / The Napoleonic era
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Górowo Iławeckie - górowski rynek z ratuszem w tle cerkiew Podwyższenia Krzyża Świętego
context_page_description: Górowo Iławeckie or simply Górowo, is a town in northern Poland, located in the Bartoszyce County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, with 4,068 inhabitants. The town has a land area of 3.32 square kilometres and is the smallest municipality in terms of geographical size in Poland.
context_section_description: After the battle of Eylau in February 1807, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte took lodging at the presbytery of the Lutheran church on 16./17.February 1807, just a few days after the Russian General Bagration. The church itself was used as a camp for Russian POWs captured at Eylau and at the earlier battle of Hoofe (Dworzno). 8000 wounded French soldiers were left in Landsberg. The town suffered from these battles and lost almost half of its inhabitants in the year 1807 due to hunger and disease following this war; in February and March 1807 alone, 400 inhabitants of the Landsberg region died. In 1809, the town counted only 1126 inhabitants and was closer to a village.
  In 1811, parts of the Napoleonic Grande Armée marched through Landsberg on their way to Russia. About 40,000 French soldiers camped at the Landsberg area before marching on and had to be supplied with rations by the inhabitants.
caption: Town Hall
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