Six weeks before this battle, the eventual winning side had been forced to retreat from its enemy's capital, which it had captured a week before.
Six weeks before this battle, the eventual winning side had been forced to retreat from its enemy's capital, which it had captured a week before. The losing general's brother John was on his way with 30,000 men to reinforce the army drawn up on Russbach Brook. By the time John arrived, his brother Charles' army was already in retreat and sustaining [*] 40,000 casualties while inflicting 34,000 thanks to the largest amount of artillery fire in military history to that point. The result of Aspern-Essling was reversed and the treaty of Schönbrunn was the proximate consequence of, FTP, what battle of July 1809 that saw Napoleon's final defeat of the Austrians?
Six weeks before this battle, the eventual winning side had been forced to retreat from its enemy's capital, which it had captured a week before.
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