Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Bayan mutuwar Kutuzov, Bennigsen ya tuna kuma ya sanya shi a kan jagorancin sojojin. Bennigsen ya shiga cikin yakin Bautzen da Lützen
, yana jagorantar ɗaya daga cikin ginshiƙan da suka kai hari a ranar ƙarshe ta Yaƙin Leipzig (16-19 Oktoba 1813). A wannan maraice ne sarki Alexander I ya sanya shi lamba, kuma daga baya ya umurci sojojin da suka yi aiki da Marshal Davout a Arewacin Jamus, musamman a cikin Siege na Hamburg (1813-14). Bayan Yarjejeniyar Fontainebleau an ba shi lambar yabo ta St. George ta Daraja ta Farko - mafi girman umarnin soja na Rasha - don ayyukansa a cikin yaƙe-yaƙe na Napoleon gaba ɗaya.