Friedland

Friedland, a town of East Prussia, on the Alle, 26 miles SE. of Königsberg, with 3182 inhabitants. It is famous as the scene of Napoleon's victory, on 14th June 1807, over the Russian and Prussian forces under Bennigsen, which brought about the Treaty of Tilsit.—FRIEDLAND is also the name of a town in the north-east of Mecklenburg, with 5502 inhabitants, and of a manufacturing town in the north of Bohemia, on the Wittig, 16 miles N. of Reichenberg by rail, with a pop. of 4817. The last gave name to the duchy from which Wallenstein (q.v.) took his title of Duke of Friedland.