1809 in Europe

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 102. Chapters: 1809 in Austria, 1809 in Denmark, 1809 in England, 1809 in Finland, 1809 in France, 1809 in Germany, 1809 in Ireland, 1809 in Italy, 1809 in Norway, 1809 in Portugal, 1809 in Serbia, 1809 in Spain, 1809 in Sweden, 1809 in Turkey, 1809 in the United Kingdom, Battle of Wagram, Battle of Eckmühl, Battle of Uclés, Battle of Almonacid, Battle of Ocana, Battle of Ciudad-Real, War of the Fifth Coalition, Battle of Abensberg, Battle of Ebelsberg, Battle of Teugen-Hausen, Battle of Piave River, Battle of Sacile, Battle of Corunna, Battle of the Basque Roads, Battle of Neumarkt-Sankt Veit, Battle of Graz, Battle of Yevenes, Finnish War, Battle of Talavera, Battle of Raab, Battle of Sankt Michael, Battle of Aspern-Essling, Battle of Wörgl, Battles of Bergisel, Polish-Austrian War, Second Battle of Porto, Battle of Gefrees, Battle of Les Sables-d'Olonne, Tyrolean Rebellion 1809, Walcheren Campaign, Battle of Medellín, Stilk v Myrick, Battle of Hollabrunn, Battle of Ratisbon, Armistice of Znaim, First Battle of Porto, Siege of Saragossa, Battle of Landshut, Treaty of Schönbrunn, Battle of Raszyn, Siege of Gerona, Battle of Alba de Tormes, Diet of Porvoo, Combat of Schöngrabern, 1809 English cricket season, Battle of Tamames, Old Price Riots, 1809, Battle of Grijó, Berners Street Hoax, Instrument of Government, Combat of Stockerau, Battle of Cegar, Battle of Alcañiz, Battle of Villafranca, Combat of Korneuburg, Battle of Castellón, 1809 in Wales, The Proclamation, Battle of Valls, Treaty of the Dardanelles, Battle of María, Battle of Kock. Excerpt: The War of the Fifth Coalition, fought in the year 1809, pitted a coalition of the Austrian Empire and the United Kingdom against Napoleon's French Empire and Bavaria. Major engagements between France and Austria, the main participants, unfolded over much of Central Europe from April to July, with very high casualty rates. Britain, already involved on the European continent in the ongoing Peninsular War, sent another expedition, the Walcheren Campaign, to the Netherlands in order to relieve the Austrians, although this effort had little impact on the outcome of the conflict. After much campaigning in Bavaria and across the Danube valley, the war ended favorably for the French after the bloody struggle at Wagram in early July. The resulting Treaty of Schönbrunn was the harshest that France had imposed on Austria in recent memory. Metternich and Archduke Charles had the preservation of the Habsburg Empire as their fundamental goal, and to this end the former succeeded in making Napoleon seek more modest goals in return for promises of Franco-Austrian peace and friendship. Nevertheless, while most of the hereditary lands remained part of Habsburg territories, France received Carinthia, Carniola, and the Adriatic ports, while Galicia was given to the Poles and the Salzburg area of the Tyrol went to the Bavarians. Austria lost over three million subjects, about one-fifth of her total population, as a result of these territorial changes. Although fighting in the Iberian Peninsula continued, the War of the Fifth Coalition was the last major conflict on the European continent until the French invasion of Russia in 1812 sparked the Sixth Coalition. Europe had been embroiled in warfare, pitting revolutionary France against a series of coalitions, nearly continuously since 1792. After five years of war, the French Republic subdued the First Coalition in 1797. A Second Coalitio...