✦ History

Part of Napoleonic Wars

Battle of Aspern–Essling

May 21–22, 1809 · Battle of Aspern–Essling

Result Austrian victory

Archduke Charles beat Napoleon's crossing of the Danube below Vienna, his first defeat in person.

On the map Contemporaries

French Empire and allies

Coalition

France
Austrian Empire
Napoleon military commander André Masséna military commander Jean Lannes military commander Jean-Baptiste Bessières military commander
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen military commander Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein military commander Johann von Hiller military commander Heinrich Joseph Johann von Bellegarde military commander Prince Friedrich Franz Xaver of Hohenzollern-Hechingen military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
80,000c. 66,000
Casualties
20,000c. 25,000
Captured
c. 2,000
Guns
c. 250
Guns lost
3c. 3
Strength
98,000c. 99,000
Casualties
23,000c. 23,000
Killed
c. 5,200
Wounded
c. 16,300
Captured
c. 1,500
Guns
c. 292

Units

Army of Germany (1809)
Austrian main army (1809)

Also involved 1