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The Battle of Wagram (5-6 July 1809) was one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815). It resulted in a pyrrhic victory for French Emperor Napoleon I (r. 1804-1814; 1815) whose army crossed the Danube...

Napoleon at the Battle of Wagram, 5 and 6 July 1809. Oil on canvas painting by Horace Vernet, 1836. Palace of Versailles.

Napoleon confers with his officers well into the night after the first day of the Battle of Wagram (5-6 July 1809), oil on canvas by Adolphe Roehn, 1810. Palace of Versailles.

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