Aspern

Aspern, a small village of Austria, on the left bank of the Danube, nearly opposite Vienna. It was the scene of a sanguinary battle on 21st and 22d May 1809, between the French under Napoleon and the Austrians under Archduke Charles, the French being defeated, after terrible slaughter, on the second day. The loss of the Austrians was 24,000; of the French, 30,000.