Talk:Battle of Aspern-Essling

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[edit] With a colour in his hand

" ...the Archduke brought up his last reserve, himself leading on his soldiers with a colour in his hand. "

I believe Archduke Karl himself said in later years that this was a myth ("Do you know how heavy regimental colors are?") and that the statue on the Heldenplatz showing him holding the colour along in a single hand is a part of the exaggeration. --StanZegel (talk) 21:05, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Connelly (p.141) says that he seized the standard of the Zach Regiment of his reserve Grenadiers and led them forward to the French. --Bryson 03:18, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[Connelly, O. Blundering to Glory: Napoleon’s Military Campaigns. Rowman & Littlefield Pub., 2006. 3rd ed.]

[edit] Why Austrian Pyrrhic Victory?

Why is it a Pyrrhic Victory, Austrian casualties were not greatly higher than the French, and the French lost Marshal Lannes.--Bryson 03:04, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

No it was a Austrian Victory and most historians would agree on that. Carl Logan 11:12, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

I know it was an Austrian victory, my question is on the Pyrrhic part.--Bryson 14:47, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

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