The Battle of Petrograd, part of Napoleon's 1813 Russian Campaign, took place on April 6th, 1813 on the shore of Lake Ladoga near the Russian capital of Petrograd between the Grand Army of the French Empire, led by Napoleon I of France, against Alexander I of Russia's army. It is considered one of the greatest battles in the history of warfare, due to the previously unheard of numbers pitted against one another and the staggering loss of life - a combined 100,000 men lost their lives at Petrograd, over 61,000 of them Russians, alongside over 30,000 French and nearly 12,000 Poles and Estonians. Czar Alexander of Russia was killed at the battle and thus ended the effective organized resistance to France in Russia.