Battle of Ratisbon
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The Battle of Ratisbon, also called the Battle of Regensburg, was a meeting engagement fought on 23 April 1809, during the Napoleonic Wars, between the army of the French Empire, led by Napoleon I, an
Marshal Lannes leads the storming of the citadel at the Battle of Ratisbon, as painted by Charles Thévenin.
Napoleon Wounded at Ratisbon by Claude Gautherot, 1810
Battle of Aspern–Essling
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In the Battle of Aspern–Essling, Napoleon crossed the Danube near Vienna, but the French and their allies were attacked and forced back across the river by the Austrians under Archduke Charles. It was
Battle of Ratisbon
…injured or captured. Sending Marshal Louis Davout to guard the north bank across the Danube, Bonaparte was now free to move on Vienna leading to the Battle of Aspern-Essling. Robert Browning's poem "Incident of the French Camp" describes a probably fictional incident during the battle…
The Battle of Aspern-Essling Johann Peter Krafft, 1820
Portrait of Archduke Charles by Thomas Lawrence, 1819
The Battle of Aspern-Essling, May 1809 by Fernand Cormon
Marshal Lannes was mortally wounded at Essling. Painting by Paul-Émile Boutigny, 1894