title: The Emperor's Last Victory: Napoleon and the Battle of Wagram (Cassell Military Paperbacks)
author: Gunther Rothenberg
description: 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.
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  # Napoleon the Little
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Victor Hugo
  
  
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  * BOOK I
  
  
    * [I. DECEMBER 20, 1848](lina_split_2.html#1_1_1)
  
  
  * [II. MISSION OF THE REPRESENTATIVES](lina_split_3.html#1_1_2)
  
  
  * [III. NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF TERM](lina_split_4.html#1_1_3)
  
  
  * [IV. MEN WILL AWAKEN](lina_split_5.html#1_1_4)
  
  
  * [V. BIOGRAPHY](lina_split_6.html#1_1_5)
  
  
  * [VI. PORTRAIT](lina_split_7.html#1_1_6)
  
  
  * [VII. IN CONTINUATION OF THE PANEGYRICS](lina_split_8.html#1_1_7)
  
  
  * [BOOK II](lina_split_8.html#1_2)
  
  
    * [I. THE CONSTITUTION](lina_split_9.html#1_2_1)
  
  
  * [II. THE SENATE](lina_split_10.html#1_2_2)
  
  
  * [III. THE COUNCIL OF STATE AND THE CORPS LÉGISLATIF](lina_split_11.html#1_2_3)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [IV. THE FINANCES](lina_split_12.html#1_2_4)
  
  
  * [V. THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS](lina_split_13.html#1_2_5)
  
  
  * [VI. NOVELTIES IN RESPECT TO WHAT IS LAWFUL](lina_split_14.html#1_2_6)
  
  
  * [VII. THE A