Aspern-Essling: Napoleon Checked
May 22, 1809
North of Vienna, Archduke Charles fought Napoleon to a standstill on the Danube flats and forced him back across the river - the emperor's first clear defeat on a battlefield. It cost the Austrians nothing lasting; they lost the campaign at Wagram six weeks later. But the spell was cracked.
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- Darwin and Lincoln Born · Europe · Culture
- Treaty of Fredrikshamn · Europe · Politics
- Battle of Wagram · Europe · War
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Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.