Instead, Moreau ambushed the Austrians as they emerged from the Ebersberg forest while launching MG Antoine Richepanse's division in a surprise envelopment of the Austrian left flank.

Near the village of St. Christoph, the two Austrian grenadier battalions sent by Kollowrat stumbled upon Richepanse's marching column, cutting his division in half.

Following his meeting with the spy and fearing that the Austrian general might try to escape, Bonaparte spread his army out in a wide net by sending Louis Desaix with GdD Jean Boudet ’ s division ( 6, 000 men ) south to Novi Ligure and GdD Jean François Cornu de La Poype ( 3, 500 men ) north on the other bank of the Po.

In front of the Austrian army were stationed, in and to the south of Marengo, the corps of Victor ( Jacques-Antoine de Chambarlhac de Laubespin and Gaspard Amédée Gardanne's divisions ), supported on the left by François Étienne de Kellermann's cavalry and, further to the northeast, by the corps of Lannes ( François Watrin's division, Mainoni's brigade ) together with two cavalry brigades.

The 1, 200-man Austrian advance guard, under Colonel ( Oberst ) Johann Maria Philipp Frimont and a division of 3, 300 men under FML O ' Reilly, pushed the French outposts back and deployed to become the Austrian right wing, driving the enemy from Pedrabona farm, then

The Austrian commander then committed FML Konrad Valentin von Kaim's division but this attack was also thwarted by 11 am.

Boudet's division advanced in line of brigades against the head of the Austrian column, defeating Saint-Julien's leading Austrian brigade.

Around 4: 30 am the advance guard of the 1st Corps ( three infantry divisions under Forey, de Ladmirault, Bazaine and a cavalry division under Desvaux ) came in to contact with the Austrian V Corps under Stadion near Castiglione delle Stiviere.

Finally, the VIII Corps, under general of division Dominique Vandamme was left out of the battle and was left behind to cover Vienna and the southern bank of the Danube upstream from the Austrian capital.

This allowed Masséna's divisions to begin crossing, while the Legrand division, already on the northern bank since 2 July, operated a feint towards Aspern and Essling, in a bid to divert Austrian attention from the actual crossing.

The Dupas division, temporarily attached to the " Army of Italy " spearheaded this attack and, as chance would have it, happened to get between the Austrian 1st and II Korps and was thus free to advance unmolested on Deutsch-Wagram from the east.

The manoeuvre of IV Corps was hampered by the arrival of the leading battalions of the d ' Aspré's division from the Austrian Grenadier Reserve, which delayed Masséna's rearguard division, under General Legrand.

Austrian grenadiers defend Aderklaa against French troops from Molitor's division.

The Emperor committed Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty | Nansouty's heavy cavalry division, in a bid to stop the Austrian menace on his left.

Towards 11: 00, Bessières received his orders, which provided for an immediate attack at the weak point of the enemy line, the seam between Austrian III Korps and the Reserve Korps, where only Feldmarshalleutnant Prochaska's thinly-spread division was covering the wide position between Süssenbrunn and Aderklaa.

An Austrian countercharge from Walmoden's Austrian hussars sent the French horse reeling and recaptured the lost battery, managing to carry most of it-except two guns-to safety, before more French cavalry, this time from Lasalle's division came up against them.

There, they fell upon the unprotected flank of d ' Aspré's Austrian grenadier division, which had been left behind to cover Bellegarde, who had just begun to retreat, in accordance with Charles's orders.

In 1657, and again in 1706, the town and castle were captured by the Swedes during their invasions of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ; on January 13, 1660 the invading Muscovite Russian army under Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky took the Brest castle in a surprise early morning attack, the town having been captured earlier, and massacred the 1700 defenders and their families ( according to captain Rosestein, Austrian observer ); on July 23, 1792 a battle was fought between the regiments of Duchy of Lithuania ( part of Polish Army ) defending the town and the invading Russian Imperial Army ; on September 19, 1794 the area between Brest and Terespol was the scene of a victorious battle won by the invading Russian Imperial army under Suvorov over the Kościuszko Uprising army division under general Karol Sierakowski known in Russian sources as ( Battle of Brest ).

For reasons not entirely clear, Mack ordered Auffenburg on 7 October to take his division of 5, 000 infantry and 400 cavalry from Günzburg to Wertingen in preparation for the main Austrian advance out of Ulm.

Malher's division conducted several heroic attacks against the Austrian positions, but all failed.

The 32nd Infantry Regiment in Dupont's division marched from Haslach towards Ulm and ran into four Austrian regiments holding Bolfingen.

For a while his work was influenced deeply by the French impressionists, and by the patterned, mosaic-like paintings of Gustav Klimt, then the dean of Austrian art.

After receiving the Austrian letter, Serbia arrested Major Voja Tankosić ( a member of the Black Hand committee who had been pointed out by the assassins ) but then promptly released him and returned him to his unit.

Husserl was born in 1859 in Prostějov (), a town in the Bohemian province of Moravia, that was then in the Austrian Empire, after 1918 in Czechoslovakia, and since 1993 in the Czech Republic.

Puccini succeeded in mastering the orchestra as no other Italian had done before him, creating new forms by manipulating structures inherited from the great Italian tradition, loading them with bold harmonic progressions which had little or nothing to do with what was happening then in Italy, though they were in step with the work of French, Austrian and German colleagues.

reports that, when the Va, pensiero chorus was sung in Milan, then belonging to the large part of Italy under Austrian domination, the audience, responding with nationalistic fervor to the exiled slaves ' lament for their lost homeland, demanded an encore of the piece.

In 1741, after three years of building and two of on-land testing, H2 was ready, but by then Britain was at war with Spain in the War of Austrian Succession and the mechanism was deemed too important to risk falling into Spanish hands.

Von Sacher-Masoch was born in the city then known as Lemberg, the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, at the time a province of the Austrian Empire ( now Lviv, Ukraine ), into the Roman Catholic family of an Austrian police director of Spanish descent and Charlotte von Masoch, a Ukrainian noblewoman.

He, in turn, was influenced by the Austrian School economist Friedrich Hayek's move to the London School of Economics, where Hicks then studied.

Singer has stated that threats were made to Adolf Hübner, then the president of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, that the conference would be disrupted if Singer and Meggle were given a platform.

Johann became a telegraph operator on the Southern Austrian Railway, and at the time of Rudolf's birth was stationed in Kraljevec in the Muraköz region, then part of the Austrian Empire ( present-day Donji Kraljevec, Međimurje region, northernmost Croatia ).

In the first two years of Rudolf's life, the family moved twice, first to Mödling, near Vienna, and then, through the promotion of his father to stationmaster, to Pottschach, located in the foothills of the eastern Austrian Alps in Lower Austria.

Italy, suspecting that San Marino could harbour Austrian spies who could be given access to its new radiotelegraph station, tried to forcefully establish a detachment of Carabinieri on its territory and then suspended any telephone connections with the Republic when it did not comply.

Soon after his return to Europe, Gretel moved to Britain, where she and Adorno were married on September 8, 1937 ; a little over a month later, Horkheimer telegrammed from New York with news of a position Adorno could take up with the Princeton Radio Project, then under the directorship of the Austrian sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld.

At the Austrian Court in Vienna in the late 17th century ( 1698 ) ladies were conducted around the room to the tune of a 2-beat measure, which then became the 3 / 4 of the Nach Tanz ( After Dance ), upon which couples got into the position for the Weller and waltzed around the room with gliding steps as in an engraving of the Wirtschaft ( Inn Festival ) given for Peter the Great.

He was then practically welcomed into Naples by the city fathers, as the Austrian viceroy had fled toward Bari, and the fortresses held by the Austrians in the city were quickly captured.

Capua and Gaeta were then properly besieged while Austrian fortresses in Sicily were quickly subdued.

The neoclassical architect Giuseppe Piermarini produced an initial design but it was rejected by Count Firmian ( the governor of the then Austrian Lombardy ).

Following the Congress of Vienna in 1815 Austria, which had emerged as the Austrian Empire became part of the German Confederation till the Austro-Prussian war of 1866, and then the Austro-Hungarian Empire which collapsed at the end of World War I. Austria was briefly independent ( First Republic ) till annexation by the German Third Reich, partitioned after the Second World War and then became the independent sovereign state ( Second Republic ) that has existed to the present day.

After the Burgundian regime in the Low Countries ( 1363 – 1477 ), the Southern Netherlands ( whose area roughly encompassed that of present-day Belgium and Luxembourg ) as well as the northern provinces ( whose area roughly corresponded to that of the present-day Kingdom of the Netherlands ) had dynastic links with the Austrian Habsburgs and then with Spain and the Austrian Habsburgs together.

Later, as a consequence of revolt in 1567, the southern provinces became subject to Spain ( 1579 ), then to the Austrian Habsburgs ( 1713 ), to France ( 1795 ), and finally in 1815 to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

His entourage insisted for some time that his last wishes were to be buried in Rome, then behind the Austrian lines.