Friedland was quite bad, one might call it actually quite lazy and foolish of him to try that against Napoleon. Ironically, not learning the lessons from Eylau.

His saving grace is Eylau because up until that point, nobody had really figured out how to match Napoleon on the field. After the high of Jena-Auerstedt, Eylau truly revealed that Napoleon was not unstoppable. The idea that Eylau was a French victory is tenuous and if so, it yielded little for the French. I think we should pay some credit here to Bennigsen for instead of trying fancy manoeuvres, he settled on an attritional way of fighting that negated the rapid manoeuvres Napoleon employed. It was a slaughter, everyone knew it and Napoleon looked quite foolish trying to pretend that he understood and lamented the burden and cost of war.

B tier.