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The strategic situation and the Battle of Aspern-Essling on 22 May 1809. On 16 and 17 May, the main Austrian army under Charles arrived in the Marchfeld, a plain northeast of Vienna just across the Danube that served as a training ground for Austrian military forces. Charles kept most of his forces several miles away from the riverbank, hoping ...
In the Battle of Sankt Michael (or Sankt Michael-Leoben) on 25 May 1809, Paul Grenier's French corps crushed Franz Jellacic's Austrian division at Sankt Michael in Obersteiermark, Austria. The action occurred after the initial French victories during the War of the Fifth Coalition , part of the Napoleonic Wars .
Archduke Charles, commander of the Austrian army. On the 5 and 6 July 1809, north of Vienna, took place one of the most important confrontations in human history until then, the Battle of Wagram.
The Battle of Aspern-Essling, May 1809 by Fernand Cormon. The Battle of Aspern-Essling order of battle is shown below. The battle was fought on 21–22 May 1809 during the War of the Fifth Coalition. An Imperial French army led by Napoleon was defeated by a larger Austrian Empire army commanded by Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen.
The Imperial Austrian Army formed the land forces of the Austrian Empire. It arose from the remains of the Imperial Army of the Holy Roman Emperor after its dissolution and in 1867 was reformed into the Common Army of Austria-Hungary and the Imperial-Royal Landwehr after the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 .
The Battle of Wagram (; 5–6 July 1809) was a military engagement of the Napoleonic Wars that ended in a costly but decisive victory for Emperor Napoleon's French and allied army against the Austrian army under the command of Archduke Charles of Austria-Teschen.
Austrian losses numbered 700 killed and wounded, plus 872 captured or missing. The French suffered about 1,400 casualties. [10] On 1 May, Archduke John ordered his army to withdraw to the east. [11] In several clashes on 2 May, the Austrian rear guard held off the French, inflicting 400 killed and wounded including Debroc wounded.
Armies on the Danube 1809. Arlington, Texas: Empire Games Press. ISBN 0-913037-08-7. Chandler, David. The Campaigns of Napoleon. New York: Macmillan, 1966. Rothenberg, Gunther E. Napoleon's Great Adversaries, The Archduke Charles and the Austrian Army, 1792-1814. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1982 ISBN 0-253-33969-3