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  French Military Victories
Battle of Sentinum - 295 B.C. The Gauls and Samniums under Egnatius are defeated by Decius Mus and Fabius Maximus Rullianus of the Roman Republic.
Battle of Telamon - 224 B.C. The out-numbered Gauls led by Concolitanus and Aneorestus are defeated by Atiliua Regulus and Aemilius Papus of the Roman Republic.
Battle of Gergovia - 52 B.C. The Gallic Tribes led by Vercingetorix defeat the Roman Republic army of Julius Caesar.
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 Battle of Rivoli
Napoleon at the Battle of Rivoli shown in historical military art print of the Battle of Rivoli, published by Cranston Fine Arts, the military print company.
The Battle of Rivoli by Carl Vernet, The Austrians attempted to relieve the fortress of Mantua under the command of General Josef Alvinczy.
Battle of Rivoli by Felix Philipoteaux A later impression of Bonaparte at the Battle of Rivoli, The French victory over the Austrian Army.
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  Battle of Wagram - MSN Encarta
Battle of Wagram, military engagement that ended with a victory for Napoleon I over Austrian forces during the Napoleonic Wars.
It was fought at the village of Wagram, Austria, on July 5 and 6, 1809, between an Austrian army of about 155,000 troops led by Archduke Charles Louis John and 170,000 French troops under Napoleon I. The ensuing peace, established by the Treaty of Schönbrunn, brought Napoleon’s empire to its zenith.
The Battle of Wagram temporarily crushed Austrian resistance to Napoleon’s dominance, but it had been preceded by some of Napoleon’s first important military reverses.
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 AUSTERLITZ.org
The battle of Austerlitz and with it related events are perpetually printed in memory of local people and became the source of the later Napoleonic tradition.
The battle of Znaim had been somewhat forgotten probably because it was never fought until the end and similarly the battle of Kulm where Napoleon was not present in person.
The battle of Wagram was fought on the very same field in early July and brought the decisive French victory.
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  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Battle of Wagram
In the Battle of Wagram (July 5-6, 1809) Napoleon's French forces defeated Archduke Charles' Austrian army, near Vienna, effectively bringing the War of the Fifth Coalition to an end.
The decisive attack of the battle was launched against the Austrian advancing centre by General Macdonald, for which he was granted the Marshal's baton on the field of battle.
Wagram was the first battle in which Napoleon failed to score an uncontested victory with relatively few casualties.
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 Battle of Wagram - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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In the Battle of Wagram (5 July 6 July 1809) Napoleon's French forces defeated Archduke Charles' Austrian army, near Vienna, effectively bringing the War of the Fifth...
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 Austrian Order-of-Battle at Wagram: 5 - 6 July 1809
I was then in front of the position at Wagram; the village of that name was on the left, and that of Baumersdorf on the right.
The last of Napoleon’s decisive pre-1812 victories, the Battle of Wagram (5-6 July, 1809) was a bloody victory against Austria fought on the Marchfeld — a vast plain north-east of Vienna.
The first day of the Battle of Wagram saw the French attack FML Armand von Nordmann’s Advanced Guard, the Austrian Reserve Cavalry and FZM Johann, Graf von Klenau’s VI Corps and force them back from the bridgehead.
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 Napoleon, His Army and Enemies : Napoleonic Battles : Uniforms : Maps : Tactics
Borodino was the bloodiest battle of the Napoleonic Wars.
Battle of Dennewitz 1813 ~ Battle of Dresden 1813 ~ Battle of the Nations: LEIPZIG 1813 ~ War in Spain
Battle of La Rothiere 1814 ~ Battle of Paris 1814 ~ Battle of Ligny, 1815 ~ Battle of Quatre Bras 1815 ~ Battle of Waterloo 1815
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 Battle of Wagram: The Times Report - Sidebar - MSN Encarta
Battle of Wagram: The Times Report - Sidebar - MSN Encarta
This report on the Battle of Wagram appeared in The Times on July 22, 1809.
Although both sides sufferd terribly during this following battle (France lost 30,000 men and Austria lost 26,000 men at Wagram), it was Austria that drew the conclusion that further resistance was pointless.
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  Atlas to Alison's History of Europe   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Battle of Pultusk, 26 December 1806; environs of Pultusk and Golymin.
Battles of Smolensko and Valtellina 17, 18 and 19 August 1812.
Battle of Waterloo, 18 June 1815: sheet 2, crisis of the battle.
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 NAPOLEON   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Finally at the Battle of Leipzig in 1813, also known as the Battle of Nations, Napoleon was defeated by an alliance consisting of Russia, Prussia, and Austria.
Battle of Jena - In this battle the Prussian army was defeated by the French Gran Armee.
Battle of Friedland - This Battle was very costly for the Russians, who lost a lot of their army and were defeated by the French.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Wagram
Wagram, Battle of A Dictionary of World History...
Wagram, Battle of (5–6 July 1809) A battle in the NAPOLEONIC WARS fought between the combined French and Italian forces led by NAPOLEON, and the Austrians under the Archduke Charles, at the village of Wagram, near Vienna.
He was made a general by Napoleon after the Battle of Marengo (1800) and marshal in 1804.
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 Reference - Étienne Maurice Gérard
He distinguished himself at the battles of battle of Austerlitz and battle of Jena, and was made general of brigade in November 1806, and for his conduct in the battle of Wagram he was created a baron.
In the Spanish campaign of 1810 and 1811 he gained special distinction at the battle of Fuentes dOnor, and in the expedition to Russia he was present at Battle of Smolensk (1812) and battle of Valutino, and displayed such bravery and ability in the battle of Borodino that he was made general of division.
In this capacity Gerard took a brilliant part in the battle of Ligny, and on the morning of June 18 he was foremost in advising Emmanuel Grouchy to march to the sound of the guns.
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 The Battles of Michael Hansen
The Battle of Eylau, fought on February 8, 1807 between the French army under Napoleon and the allied Russian and Prussian armies under General Count Bennigsen, is almost certainly the battle refered to as "Eylan (January 1807)" in From Sturdy Roots.
The Battle of Friedland, fought on June 14, 1807 between the French under Napoleon and the Russians under General Count Bennigsen, was the decisive victory Napoleon had sought in the campaign leading to Eylau.
The Battle of Wagram, fought on July 6, 1809 between the French under Napoleon and the Austrians under ArchDuke Charles, was the final victory in Napoleon's last victorious campaign.
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 Web-Grognards: Wagram
WAGRAM is a simulation of the battle which took place between the armies of the Hapsburg Empire under Archduke Charles and the French-Allied armies under Napoleon on July 5th and 6th, 1809.
Wagram was the final decisive battle in the Campaign of 1809, which pitted Napoleon and the forces of the French Empire against the Hapsburg Archduke Charles and the Austrian Army.
On the early morning of June 5th, under the cover of heavy batteries, the French erected pontoon bridges across the last remaining channel of the Danube and debouched from Lobau Island onto the eastern plain of the Danube.
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 Battle of Wagram
The battle of Wagram was took place on July 6, 1809 and resulted in the victory of French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte over the Austrians under archduke Charles.
This victory brought to an end the war of 6th coaltion.
In this important battle 300 000 soldiers fought.
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 Battle of Wagram   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Battle of Wagram, around the isle of Lobau on the Danube 15 km north east of Vienna, Austria, took place on July 5 and 6, 1809 and resulted in the victory of French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte over the Austrians under Archduke Charles.
Artillery was a major factor where 300,000 men clashed in the largest battle yet in the Napoleonic Wars.
Of those, 80,000 men lay killed or wounded, half of them under the Banner of Napoleon, the other half Austrians.
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/b/ba/battle_of_wagram.html   (116 words)

  
 Demi-Solde Press Maps   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Battle of Arcola, 15 and 17 November 1796.
Battle of Wagram, 5 and 6 July 1809.
Battle of Leipzig, 16, 17, 18, and 19 October 1813.
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 Baxter's EduNET - Time Machine
Austria is defeated in 1805 at the battle of Austerlitz, while Prussia is conquered in 1806, after the battles of Jena and Auerstadt.
Austria is defeated again in 1809 at the battle of Wagram, but Napoleon fails to conquer Spain where the French army, trained to fight large battles, faces a guerrilla war.
He is defeated once and for all at the battle of Waterloo in Belgium on June 18, 1815 by a British-Dutch army led by Wellington and a Prussian army led by Blucher.
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 HistWar: Les Gognards Overview
Histwar™: Les Grognards allows you to relive the famous historical (and countless what-if) battles between the French, Russians and Austrian armies as well as a multitude of secondary nations and city states (Wurtemberg, Saxony, Poland, Italy, Naples).
The T-AI is always active and translates the Commander of Army's orders into executable commands such as troop concentrations, battle formations, rallying of units and use of reserves.
The maps are created in real time 3D and the editor allow for a stunning array of terrain features and structures to be placed on the map including villages, farms, hamlets, castles, encampments and sprawling vineyards, rivers, lakes and deep forest.
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 Wagram : Battle of Wagram : Napoleonic Wars : Bonaparte : Charles
But reinforcements under Marshal Massena and artillery fire support from the grand batteries on Lobau stemmed the Austrian advance and then the battle swung France's way with Marshal Davout pushing back the Austrian left wing.
The decisive attack was then unleashed against the Austrian centre by Marshal Macdonald and, after ferocious fighting, finally broke through Charles' lines, splitting the army and winning the day for Bonaparte.
The 80,000 killed and wounded were evenly divided between the two armies, but it was a heavy defeat for the Austrians who sued for peace four days later.
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 Battle of Leipzig
Military art prints of the Battle of Leipzig by leading military artists, published by Cranston Fine Arts, the military print company.
The Battle started on the 16th of October with a Russian assault under the command of General Mikhail Barclay de Tolly.
The Allies lost a total of 52,000.The Battle of Leipzig is often referred to as the Battle of the nations.
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 Battle of Maida
Military art prints of the Battle of Maida by leading military artists.
On the 6th of July the French force of 4,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry met the British force of 5,000 infantry.
The battle was a British victory with losses of 330, compared to the French losses of 700 killed and 1,000 wounded with another 1,000 prisoners.
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 IslandTravelBooks.com: All Books: The Emperor's Last Victory: Napoleon and the Battle of Wagram (Cassell Military ...
The battle was a monster of its kind, with a huge number of soldiers involved.
In a battle at Aspern-Essling, Charles managed to bloody the French and experience a tactical victory.
However, the French generals were better, Napoleon hit his stride during the battle at Wagram, and the end result was a fairly convincing French victory.
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 Battle of Chickamauga
By three o'clock the tide of the battle had swept down the valley so far that General Negley's division was not longer needed to guard the fords, and it was moved from its position near Crawfish Springs to the Widow Glenn's house.
The battle was raging fiercely in the forest along the Chickamauga; batteries of artillery and brigades of infantry were moving on double quick to the support of our forces on the battle lines.
During the first day of battle neither army had any fortifications, but, on the second day, a part of the Union forces had constructed such barricades as could be readily made from the material at hand.
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 Wargames Board - Wagram - Order of Battle Mistake   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Austrian Cuirassiers are rated as L for Light rather than H for Heavy as in the other order of battle files.
This order of battle effects only the Campaign battles where it is used.
It was not used in any of the stand alone battles to the best of my knowledge.
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 General Antoine-Charles-Louis Lasalle
After the victorious battles of Jena and Auerstädt, Lasalle participated in the pursuit of the Prussians, and with only 800 cavalry soldiers, convinced the governor of Stettin to surrender his fortress to Lasalle.
On the morning of the Battle of Wagram, Lasalle had a presentiment about his death.
Towards the end of the battle, Lasalle was leading a charge when he was shot in the forehead and killed instantly.
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 NapoleonGames.com: Games by Operational Studies Group.
After winning two major battles in the Spring of 1813, Napoleon agreed to an Armistice, ostensibly to prepare a path for peace, but actually as a cover for further war preparations.
Knowing his own worth in battle and the miraculous effect of his presence on the young troops, the Emperor stands accused of not going where the action was.
The fate of the battle then devolved upon control of the hills northwest of the town, the commanding Denkmalsberg and the adjacent Windmill Hill.
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 eBROG - Napoleon on the Danube
It is not to say that the game was bad, it's very good as a matter of fact, but as a simulation, any resemblance to the battle of Wagram was purely coincidental [sic].
He has, ostensibly, redesigned the old WAGRAM Quad game to the point where, to paraphrase his own words, any resemblance to the original is purely coincidental.
The complete, two-day battle, has a play balance hovering somewhere between the other two scenarios, but to finish that you've got to have a bit of time on your hands.
www.thewargamer.com /brog/napoleon_on_the_danube_.htm   (2426 words)

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