The Emperor's Last Victory

by Gunther Rosenberg

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780304367115
Publisher:	Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Publication date:	11/10/2005
Series:	Cassell Military Paperbacks Series
Edition description:	New
Pages:	274
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.68(d)