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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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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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Karl Philipp von Wrede
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...with the French against Austria in 1805 in the Napoleonic Wars, and led the Bavarian corps that aided Napoleon's victory at Wagram (1809). Just before the battle of Leipzig (1813) he negotiated the Treaty of Ried between Austria and Bavaria and fought...
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Francis II
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...embroiled in difficulties in Spain. Francis's brother, Archduke Charles , defeated Napoleon at Aspern, but was crushed at Wagram. Napoleon entered Vienna and imposed on Francis the Peace of Schönbrunn, in which Austria was forced to give up Galicia...
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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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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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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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Dynasts, The; an Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon, in Three Parts, Nineteen Acts and One Hundred and Thirty Scenes
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...invasion. Part II covers the defeat of the Prussians at Jena, the meeting of Napoleon and Alexander at Tilsit, the battle of Wagram, the fall of Godoy and the abdication of the king of Spain, and war in Spain, the divorce of Josephine, and Napoleon's...
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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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