This monument pays tribute to the combatants of the Battle of Gołymin (in Mazovia), which took place on 26 December 1806. The Prussian and Polish campaigns (1806-1807) pitted the French Empire against the Fourth Coalition (United Kingdom, Russia, Sweden and Prussia), which rejected the Confederation of the Rhine imposed by Napoleon. The Battle of Gołymin pitted the soldiers of Marshal Murat against the Russian troops of Prince Dmitry Golitsyn who, despite their numerical inferiority, managed to hold out and escape the French.
The monument of the battle was erected thanks to the efforts of the municipality, at the call of certain citizens and with the formation of a building committee bringing together some ten people charged with carrying out the project. It was financed by the Ministry of Culture and by regional funds. The inauguration took place on 15 August 2006, four months before the bicentenary, followed by a mass and a re-enactment of the battle.
The monument in grey granite, the work of the sculptors Wojciech Henrykowski and Zygmunt Szczepankowski, is composed of two rectangular columns which symbolise the two belligerent armies represented by engravings of soldiers. The columns are linked by a block on which one can read in Polish, beneath a large "N", Napoleon's insignia: "To the heroes of the Battle of Gołymin fought in the presence of the Emperor Napoleon by the Grande Armée against the Russian army on 26 December 1806 during 'the First Polish War'." This inscription is also legible in French on the left side of the French column, and in Russian on the right side of the Russian column.