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The emperor's last victory: Napoleon and the Battle of Wagram

✍ Scribed by Gunther E Rothenberg

Publisher
George Weidenfeld & Nicholson;Orion; Cassell
Year
2013
Tongue
English
Weight
409 KB
Category
Fiction
City
Austria;Deutsch-Wagram
ISBN
1780226985
ASIN
B00E9HR5QW

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✦ Synopsis

A leading expert examines one of Napoleon's most decisive but least analysed victories

In early July 1809 Napoleon crossed the Danube with 187,000 men to confront the Austrian Archduke Charles and an army of 145,000 men. The fighting that followed dwarfed in intensity and scale any previous Napoleonic battlefield, perhaps any in history: casualties on each side were over 30,000. The Austrians fought with great determination, but eventually the Emperor won a narrow victory. Wagram was decisive in that it compelled Austria to make peace. It also heralded a new, altogether greater order of warfare, anticipating the massed manpower and weight of fire deployed much later in the battles of the American Civil War and then at Verdun and on the Somme.

✦ Subjects

History

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