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1809 Thunder on the Danube: Napoleon's Defeat of the Hapsburgs, Volume II (Paperback)
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1809 Thunder on the Danube: Napoleon's Defeat of the Hapsburgs, Volume II (Paperback)
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In the second volume of this epic work, John H. Gill traces
Napoleon's progress as he sought to complete his victory over the
Habsburgs. The war had erupted on April 10th with Austria's
invasion of Germany and Italy. After just two weeks, Napoleon had
battered the Habsburg Archduke Charles in a series of bruising
defeats. This volume begins with Napoleon astride the Danube at
Regensburg. He faced a critical strategic choice - whether to
pursue the injured Austrian main army into Bohemia or march
directly for Vienna, the seat of Habsburg power. After electing to
target Vienna, his troops defeated the Austrians in the brutal
Battle of Ebelsberg, allowing him to enter the city on May 13th.
However on the far side of the Danube, he then suffered a dramatic
loss at the gruelling, two-day Battle of Aspern. While his Danube
forces recovered from this setback, the Emperor cleared trouble
from his strategic flanks. Gill describes in vivid detail the
hopeful Habsburg invasion of Italy, led by the 27-year-old Archduke
Johann, and the fierce French counter-offensive under Napoleon's
stepson, Eugene de Beauharnais (also aged 27). In a series of
encounters across Italy, de Beauharnais rebounded from initial
defeat to advance triumphantly into Austrian territory, shattering
and scattering Johann's army. In the wake of Aspern, while the
Austrians vacillated, Napoleon gathered every man, horse and gun
around Vienna, setting the stage for the gigantic spectacle of the
Battle of Wagram, the final chapter in the story of the 1809 war.
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