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Wagram
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Wagram or Deutsch-Wagram , town, Lower Austria prov., NE Austria, in the Marchfeld, near Vienna. On July 5-6, 1809, Napoleon I gained one of his most brilliant victories there. Despite their heroic conduct and the able leadership of...
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Deutsch-Wagram
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Deutsch-Wagram see Wagram , Austria.
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Napoleonic Warfare
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...breach the enemy's front or flank, while light cavalry would be launched to turn retreat into rout. From Marengo (1800) to Wagram (1809), Napoleon's talent to seize the right moment, together with the overall superior quality of his army, assured...
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Louis Alexandre Berthier
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...titles during his illustrious military career including Duc de Valangin, sovereign Prince de Neufchatel (1806), and Prince de Wagram (1809). The Tide Turned As Napoleon began to experience one defeat after another, Berthier's loyalties began to waver...
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Znojmo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...footwear, leather goods, and foodstuffs. Chartered in 1226, it has several fine churches and a 15th-century town hall. At Znojmo, in 1809, an armistice was signed by the Austrians and the French after the French victory at Wagram.
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Louis Nicolas Davout
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Napoleon's ablest generals, Davout defeated a Prussian army at Auerstedt (1806) and played a brilliant part in the victory at Wagram (1809). He also fought (1812) in the Russian campaign. Napoleon made him duke of Auerstedt, prince of Eckmühl...
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Revue Métapsychique
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...editor. The review, which published parapsychological research in France and elsewhere, was discontinued in 1981. Back issues from the 1930s onwards are available from the Institut Metapsychique, 1 Place Wagram, Paris 75017, France.
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Marchfeld
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...of Hungary on the Marchfeld, and in 1278, Ottocar was defeated and slain by the forces of Rudolf I of the house of Hapsburg. In 1809, Napoleon I was defeated on the Marchfeld at Aspern by Archduke Charles, but was victorious at Wagram.
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Yugoslav literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Croatians a cultural movement known as Illyrianism (named after the state established by Napoleon after the defeat of Austria at Wagram in 1809) acted as a stimulant to literature. Illyrianism was suffused with romanticism and nationalism; the latter theme...
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Napoleonic Wars
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...but were faced by the British army led by the Duke of Wellington . The Fifth Coalition collapsed with the defeat of Austria at Wagram (1809). In 1812, Napoleon invaded Russia. Bitter winter forced his retreat from Moscow, and much of his army died of starvation...
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