Battle of Wagram
July 6, 1809
Two hundred thousand Frenchmen and a similar number of Austrians fought for two days on the Marchfeld east of Vienna. Napoleon won, but barely - thirty-seven thousand dead and wounded per side. It confirmed the Austrians as beatable and committed Napoleon to the politics of exhaustion that would ruin him in Russia.
In context
Also in 1809 (3 other events on record)
- Darwin and Lincoln Born · Europe · Culture
- Aspern-Essling: Napoleon Checked · Europe · War
- Treaty of Fredrikshamn · Europe · Politics
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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