Aspern

a small village of Austria, on the Danube, about 2 miles from Vienna. Here, and in the neighboring village of E lingen, were fought the tremendous battles of the 21st and 22d of May, 1809, between the French grand army, commanded by Napoleon, and the Austrians under the Archduke Charlies. The French, after this continuous fighting, with vast lo to both sides, were obliged to retreat, and oceupy the island of Lobau.