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15 October 1810 Pułk 4 Piechoty Xięstwa Warszawskiego with 400 infantry and 57 french dragoons under the command of kpt. Franciszek Młokosiewicz under Fuengirola crushed the british army of 2,000 british infantry, 1,500 british sailors and 1,000 spanish infantry. The Polish-French army lost 20 men and had 100 injured. The British-Spanish army lost 40 men , 70 were injured, lost 1 gunboat. Polish-French army captured 5 cannons, 300 muskets and 60,000 munitions. 177 soldiers were taken prisoners, among them was general major of lord Blayney. | |  -VEINRUS- Pułkownik Pułku 4.  Rizzet Rotmistrz Kawalerii Rohen Podporucznik Woltyżerów Rome Feldfebel Grenadierów KraxPL Kapral Artylerii | |
In the first war of polish napoleonic epooch freshly formed 4th Regiment with strength of 1 battalion from 1 May untill 7 July 1807 took part in the siege of Grudziądz fortress held by prussian forces.
06.06.1807 - skirmish under Parsk and Nowa Wieś
Second battalion worked as garrison service in Serock near the crossing of Narw and in Pułtusk
25.05.1807 - skirmish under Zatory
18.06.1807 - skirmish under Popow
In the first part of napoleonic wars in Spain 1808-1810 4th reg. takes part in the following events:
- Puente del Almaraz (24.12.1808, maneuver on La Coruña)
- Consuegra, battle Ciudad Real (27 March 1809, maneuver on La Coruña)
- Old and New Castille, Asturia, Kingdom of Leon, skirmish under Moro, battle under Talavera de la Reyna (28 July 1809)
| - defense of Toledo
- battle under Almonacidem (11 August 1809)
- battle under Ocañą (19 November 1809)
- battle under Fuengirolą (15 October 1810)
- Coien, Monbella (9 December 1810)
- skirmish in Rondo
- skirmish in Valez
- defense of Alhaurinu
- conquer of Marbell | |
At the end of 1809 regiment had 2241 soldiers. 4th Regiment fought in battle under Fuengirola at the coast of Mediterranean near Malag. This events took place in autumn of 1810 when the British army tried to sabotage french offensive on Portugal. 400 soldiers of 4th Regiment had to face seven times bigger enemy which also had naval artilery and spanish partisan support.
In the second part of napoleonic wars (1811-1814), in 1811 4th reg. takes part in following events:
- battle under Albuerą
- Ximena de la Frontiera (25 September 1811)
- Czaszniki, Krasnoje (16 November 1812)
- oblężenie Spandawy (April 1813)
Winter 1811/1812. 4th Regiment of Foot with whole Dutchy of Warsaw division comes back to country. In 1812 reg. was not selected to join V Great Army Corps ks. Józefa Poniatowskiego but as unit of Great Army joined 28. French division of general Jean Girard in IX Corpus of marshal Claude Victor-Perrin. Because of that 4th reg was assigned to guard the communication routes and stationed in Smoleńsk. 4th. also took its part in the last phase of russian campaign in 1912 in following events:
- battle under Czaśniki
- battle under Sienno
- battle under Smolańce
In the 1813 campaign recreated reg. was assigned to gen. Dąbrowski division. They fought in:
- defense of Wittenberg (10 October 1813)
- batles under Belzig
- battles under Jüterbog (6 September 1813)
- under Düben
- in the battle of Nations under Lipsk (16 and 18 October 1813)
In the 1814 campaign soldiers of the 4th reg. fought as part of Legion de la Vistula in:
- defense of Soissons
- battle under Arcis-sur-Aube
After the abdication of french emperor Napoleon Bonaparte 4th came back to country carrying 2 banners and act as the core of 4th Line Infantry Regiment of Kingdom of Poland.
