Eylau, a small town, 23 m. S. of Königsberg, the scene of a great battle between Napoleon and the Russian and Prussian allies in February 8, 1807; the fight was interrupted by darkness, under cover of which the allies retreated, having had the worst of it.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Eyck, Jan van * Eyre, Edward John