Battle of Gorodechno - a battle between the allied army of Napoleonic France and Russia at , a small town in the Kobrin district of the Grodno province (now the Pruzhany district, Brest region), held on July 31 ( August 12 ), 1812 . A battle took place here between part of the 3rd Reserve Observatory Army (about 18,000) of General Tormasov and the corps: Austrian Prince Schwarzenberg and Saxon Rainier (about 40,000).
| Battle of Gorodechno |
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| Main conflict: Patriotic War of 1812 |
Battle plan under the City |
| date | July 31 ( August 12 ) 1812 |
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| A place | City |
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| Total | retreat of the Russian army |
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Russian empire | First French Empire |
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General Alexander Petrovich Tormasov | Prince Carl Philip zu Schwarzenberg
Jean-Louis-Ebenezer Rainier |
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3rd Reserve Observational Army | Austrian Corps
Saxon Corps |
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The Russian position from the front was accessible only on three dams, which went through the swampy tributary of the Mukhavets river; its right flank rested against the swamp; the left was covered by a forest (considered impassable), through which the road to Kobrin passed. Prince Schwarzenberg sent a detachment bypassing the left flank, the sudden appearance of which forced Tormasov to pull almost all the troops there. All enemy attacks on our left flank were repulsed, but nothing decisive was undertaken against our front. Thanks to this, Tormasov, despite the great superiority of forces from the enemy side, remained in position until the evening. At night, fearing for his retreat, he retreated to Kobrin.
