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Abraham Lincoln ( February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 ) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
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In the Battle of Abensberg on 19 – 20 April 1809, Napoleon gained a significant victory over the Austrians under Archduke Louis of Austria and General Johann von Hiller.
* Battle of Eckmühl occurred 21 – 22 April 1809.
* 1809 – The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: the Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.
* 1809 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer ( d. 1894 )
* 1738 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, English statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1809 )
* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.
* 1809 – An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition.
* 1809 – Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain.
* 1809 – John Kirk Townsend, American naturalist ( d. 1851 )
Albert Pike ( December 29, 1809 – April 2, 1891 ) was an attorney, Confederate officer, writer, and Freemason.
* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.
* 1809 – Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition begins when Austria invades Bavaria.
Victorious Archduke Charles of Austria during the Battle of Aspern-Essling ( 21 – 22 May 1809 ).
His siblings included Sarah ( 1802 – 1859 ), Naphtali ( 1807 ), Ralph ( 1809 – 1898 ), and James ( 1813 – 1868 ).
* Jean-Baptiste Muard ( 1809 – 1854 )
* Boniface Wimmer ( 1809 – 1887 )
* Gongalegoda Banda ( 1809 – 1849 ), Sri Lankan rebellion leader
* Louis II ( 1810 ), also Grand Duke of Berg ( 1809 – 1813 )
1809 and Battle
On 31 December 1809, a decree of King Maximilian of Bavaria granted the city a new coat of arms, as a recognition of their ( mainly humanitarian and logistic ) services in the Battle of Abensberg the same year.
* Battle of Abensberg occurred April 20, 1809.
* Battle of Landshut occurred April 21, 1809.
He reformed Austria's armies to adopt the nation at arms principle ; in 1809, he went into the War of the Fifth Coalition with confidence and inflicted Napoleon's first major setback at Aspern-Essling, before suffering a defeat at the bloody Battle of Wagram.
In 1809, French dragoons scored notable successes against Spanish armies at the Battle of Ocana and the Battle of Alba de Tormes.
Those led by Ferdinand von Schill were decimated in the Battle of Stralsund ( 1809 ); many were killed in battle or executed at Napoleon's command in the aftermath.
Besides its use as an explosive, gunpowder has been occasionally employed for other purposes ; after the Battle of Aspern-Essling ( 1809 ), the surgeon of the Napoleonic Army Larrey combated the lack of food for the wounded under his care by preparing a bouillon of horse meat seasoned with gunpowder for lack of salt.
* 1809 – The Battle of Wagram, the largest of the Napoleonic Wars.
* 1809 – The second day of the Battle of Wagram sees a French victory over the Austrian army in the largest battle yet of the Napoleonic Wars.
* 1809 – Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
* 1809 – Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera – Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte.
* 1809 – On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling ( near Vienna ), Napoleon is repelled by an enemy army for the first time.
* 1809 – The first day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling between the Austrian army led by Archduke Charles and the French army led by Napoleon I of France sees the French attack across the Danube held.
* 1809 – Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad-Real.
In the war against Austria, Bernadotte led the Saxon contingent at the Battle of Wagram ( 6 July 1809 ), on which occasion, on his own initiative, he issued an Order of the Day attributing the victory principally to the valour of his Saxons, which order Napoleon at once disavowed.
Napoleon had enjoyed easy success in Spain, retaking Madrid, defeating the Spanish and consequently forcing a withdrawal of the heavily out-numbered British army from the Iberian Peninsula ( Battle of Corunna, 16 January 1809 ).
1809 and Basque
In 1809, the Battle of the Basque Roads took place near La Rochelle, in which a British fleet defeated the French Atlantic Fleet.
Fire ships continued to be used, sometimes to great effect such as by the U. S. Navy at the Battle of Tripoli Harbor in 1804 and by the British Navy's Thomas Cochrane at the Battle of the Basque Roads in 1809, but for the most part they were considered an obsolete weapon by the early 19th century.
* Thomas Cochrane's attack on the French in the Battle of the Basque Roads, 1809.
Genoa 1795, Basque Roads 1809, Taranto 1940, Mediterranean 1940 – 1941, Malta Convoys 1941, Diego Suarez 1942, Salerno 1943, Sabang 1944, Palembang 1945, Okinawa 1945
She took part in the Battle of the Nile and the Battle of the Basque Roads in 1809.
The Battle of the Basque Roads, April 1809.
In 1809, the Battle of the Basque Roads ( French: Bataille de l ' Île d ' Aix ) was a naval battle off the island of Aix between the British Navy and the Atlantic Fleet of the French Navy.
On the night of 11 April 1809 Captain Thomas Cochrane led a British fireship attack against a powerful squadron of French ships anchored in the Basque Roads.
In April 1809 he chased a squadron of French ships that had escaped from Brest into the Basque Roads.
The only subsequent breakout attempt, by the Brest fleet in 1809, ended with the defeat of the French fleet close to its own anchorage at the Battle of Basque Roads.
She grounded at the Battle of the Basque Roads in 1809 and a British boarding party burned after her French crew had abandoned her.
The Battle of the Basque Roads off Ile d ' Aix, April 1809.
On the night of 11 April 1809 Captain Lord Cochrane led a British fireship attack against a powerful squadron of French ships anchored in the Basque Roads.
On the evening of April 11, 1809 Cochrane led the way into Basque Roads with two explosion ships, followed by 25 other ships.
It is most famous as the site of the British naval victory over a French fleet at the 1809 Battle of Basque Roads.
At the Battle of the Basque Roads in 1809, there were no less than three vessels participating that had been fitted to throw rockets: two hired armed cutters King George and Nimrod, and the schooner Whiting.
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