Editing Battle of Craonne (section)

==Result==
One historian stated that the Russians lost 5,000 while the French counted 5,500 casualties.{{sfn|Chandler|1966|p=988}} A second authority placed French casualties between 5,400 and 8,000, while the Russians admitted losing 4,785 killed, wounded and missing.{{sfn|Smith|1998|p=508}} A third source broke down the Russian casualties into 1,529 dead and 3,256 wounded, while giving French losses as 8,000. General-Major Lanskoy was mortally wounded; Generalmajor Sergey Nikolaevich Ushakov II of the Courland Dragoon Regiment and Colonel Parkinson of the artillery were killed. General-Leutnant Laptiev and Generalmajors Hovansky, Glebov, Feodor Vasilyevich Zvarykin and Andrey Timofeevich Maslov were wounded. The Pavlograd Hussars lost 22 officers killed or wounded, the 13th Jägers lost 16 officers and 400 men and the Shirvan Infantry Regiment lost half its numbers. On the French side, Marshal Victor and Generals of Division Grouchy, Laferrière and Boyer de Rébeval were wounded as were Generals of Brigade Bigarré and Lecapitaine. Boyer de Rébeval's division suffered losses of two out of three men. Neither side lost a cannon or a color.{{sfn|Nafziger|2015|p=249}} The 14th Voltigeurs, which was made up of French soldiers from [[Joseph Bonaparte]]'s disbanded Spanish Guard, lost 32 officers and was virtually annihilated.{{sfn|Oman|1997|p=253}}

According to two historians, Craonne was a [[Pyrrhic victory]] because the French held the battlefield at the day's end, but their other objectives were not attained.{{sfn|Nafziger|2015|p=249}}{{sfn|Petre|1994|p=131}} Napoleon hoped to march rapidly to Laon and get there ahead of Blücher. In the event, the effort involved to drive off Vorontsov caused the French army to be spread out toward Soissons, rather than toward Laon. Napoleon had hoped to easily dispose of Vorontsov's corps, but found that he had to fight a major battle. Instead of cutting off Blücher from Laon, Napoleon had to pursue the Allied army directly.{{sfn|Petre|1994|p=131}} If Blücher had added Sacken's infantry to Vorontsov's corps, Napoleon might well have been beaten.{{sfn|Petre|1994|p=133}} Napoleon believed that the Allied army was fleeing from him in confusion, but this was not the case.{{sfn|Petre|1994|p=134}} Napoleon's army would sustain a defeat in the [[Battle of Laon]] on 9–10 March and be lucky not to suffer even worse damage.{{sfn|Chandler|1966|pp=989–991}}

===Russian and French general officer casualties===
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File:Lanskoy S N.jpg|Russian General-Major Sergey N. Lanskoy{{KIA}}
File:Hovansky Nikolay Nikolaevich.jpg|Russian Generalmajor Nikolay N. Hovansky
File:Krasovsky Afanasy Ivanovich.jpg|Russian Generalmajor Afanasy I. Krasovsky
File:Glebov Andrey Savvich.jpg|Russian Generalmajor Andrey S. Glebov
File:Ushakov 2 Sergey Nikolaevich.jpg|Russian Generalmajor Sergey N. Ushakov{{KIA}}
File:Laptev Wasily Danilovich.jpg|Russian General-Leutnant Vasily D. Laptiev
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File:Emmanuel de Grouchy (1).jpg|General of Division Emmanuel de Grouchy
File:Auguste Julien Bigarré.jpg|French General of Brigade Auguste Bigarré
File:Louis Marie Levesque de Laferrière.jpg|French General of Division Louis Laferrière
File:Maslov Andrey Timofeevich.jpg|Russian Generalmajor Andrey T. Maslov
File:Zvarykin Fyodor Vasilyevich.jpg|Russian Generalmajor Fyodor V. Zvarykin
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