A cikin shekarunsa ashirin ya yi yaƙi da mamayar Faransa a Rasha, yana ganin aikin a Smolensk a ranar 12 ga Yuni, 1812, Borodino a ranar 26 ga Agusta, Tarutino a ranar 6 ga Oktoba da Maloyaroslavets a ranar 12 ga Oktoba. Don ayyukansa a Maloyaroslavets an ba shi lambar yabo ta Saint Vladimir ta aji na 4, tare da takuba da baka kuma a ƙarshe, daga 3 zuwa 10 ga Nuwamba, a Krasnoi. Saboda jaruntakarsa, an daukaka shi zuwa laftanan na biyu a ranar 4 ga Disamba 1812. Yayin da Rasha ta ci gaba zuwa Jamus, ya yi yaƙi a
Lutzen a ranar 20 ga Afrilu, 1813, a ranar 16 ga Agusta kusa da Dresden, a ranar 17 da 18 ga Agusta a Kulm (wanda ya karɓi Kulm Cross) sannan kuma 4 da 6 ga Oktoba kusa da Leipzig. Duk da yake a cikin ajiyar a 1814, ya kuma yi yaƙi a Brienne, Arcis-sur-Aube, Fère-Champenoise, a wani rikici kusa da Paris a ranar 18 ga Maris kuma a ƙarshe a kama Paris a ranar 19 ga Maris. Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich ya nada shi a cikin ma'aikatansa kuma Dannenberg ya kuma sami ci gaba ga Lieutenant da kyaftin tare da Order of St Anne na aji na biyu. A ranar 1 ga Agusta 1814 an canza shi zuwa Babban Jami'in Tsaro. Daga nan aka daukaka shi zuwa kanalan (1818) da Manjo Janar (1827) tare da nadin Babban Jami'in Janar na Tsarevich.