Aspern

(as'pern.) (Hist.) A small village of Austria, on the Danube, 2'm. from Vienna. Here, and in the neighboring village of E ling, were fought between the French under Napoléon I., and the Austrians under the Archduke Charles, the bloody battles of May 21st and 22d, 1809, after which the French retreated and occupied the island of Lobau. [s. 53]