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Battle of Aspern-Essling

Battle of Aspern-Essling was a battle fought on 21 May 1809 at Lobau, in what is now Austria; it lasted 1 day. It was part of the War of the Fifth Coalition. The recorded result: Austrian victory. Recorded strength: 98,000 against 80,000.

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Battle of Aspern-Essling
Fernand Cormon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Fought21 May 1809lasted 1 day
WhereLobau, Austria48.213N, 16.503E
OutcomeAustrian victory
BelligerentsAustriaagainstFrance
Part ofWar of the Fifth Coalition1809

Where it sits in the War of the Fifth Coalition

Mauritius campaign, 1809Battle of Hollabrunn, 1809Tyrolean Rebellion, 1809Battle of Sacile, 1809Battle of Teugen-Hausen, 1809Battle of Abensberg, 1809Battle of Landshut, 1809Battle of Eckmühl, 1809Battle of Caldiero, 1809Battle of Ebelsberg, 1809Battle of Piave River, 1809Battle of Wörgl, 1809Battle of Tarvis, 1809Battle of Linz-Urfahr, 1809Battle of Aspern-Essling, 1809Dalmatian Campaign, 1809Battle of Sankt Michael, 1809First Battle of Bergisel, 1809Second Battle of Bergisel, 1809Battle of Raab, 1809Battle of Graz, 1809Battle of Wagram, 1809Combat of Korneuburg, 1809Battle of Gefrees, 1809Combat of Stockerau, 1809Battle of Znaim, 1809Combat of Schöngrabern, 1809Battle of Halberstadt, 1809Battle of Ölper, 1809Third Battle of Bergisel, 1809Battles of Bergisel, 1809Action of 18 November 1809, 1809Walcheren Campaign, 1809Battle of Grand Port, 1810Battle of Tamatave, 181118091811Battle of Aspern-Essling, 1809
35 placed engagements of the War of the Fifth Coalition in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.

Record

Date21 May 1809
to 22 May 1809
PlaceLobau, Austria
48.213N, 16.503E
KindBattle, Revolutionary and Napoleonic
Strength98,00080,000
Casualties and losses23,000
Commanders
Battle of Aspern-EsslingBattle of Aspern-EsslingBattle of SchwechatFirst Turkish Siege of ViennaSecond Turkish Siege of ViennaSiege of ViennaSiege of ViennaSiege of ViennaBratislavaBrnoLinzGrazGyőrZlínŽilinaJihlava100 km48.213N, 16.503E
The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

The ground today

Relief of the ground around the site of Battle of Aspern-Essling
Relief within about 10.0 km of the site, contours every 5 m. Copernicus DEM GLO-30, ESA.
Satellite view of the site of Battle of Aspern-Essling today
The same ground from Sentinel-2 on 2023-09-09. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2023.

The recorded site stands at about 156 m; within 10.0 km the ground runs from 146 to 193 m, 47 m of relief, gently rolling country and today it is 33% tree cover, 28% built-up, 25% cropland.

tree cover: 33%built-up: 28%cropland: 25%grassland: 12%tree cover 33%built-up 28%cropland 25%grassland 12%
west to east, 10.0 km152 to 171 mnorth to south, 10.0 km150 to 169 m
Elevation from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, Airbus); land cover from ESA WorldCover 2021 (CC BY 4.0), within about 5 km of the recorded site. Computed, not recorded.

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Combat data (CDB90)

Attacker: AUS ARMYDefender: FR ARMY
Strength99,00066,000
Casualties23,000 (23.2%)21,000 (31.8%)
Mission accomplishment, 1 to 1075
Outcomeattacker won
Duration1.9 days
Front width7.5 km5 km
Attacker advanced0 km

From the US Army Concepts Analysis Agency Database of Battles (CDB90, battle 125), public domain, in the CC0 tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold. Figures are the database's estimates, compiled in 1990 from published histories, and may differ from the Wikipedia infobox above.

Battle of Aspern-Essling is one of 3,694 engagements of the 19th century in the atlas and one of 69 in present-day Austria.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q541626, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Aspern–Essling, revision 1385210323, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.