Eckmühl, a little village on the Laber, in Bavaria, 15 miles by rail S. of Ratisbon, is notable for the battle fought there, on the 22d April 1809, between Napoleon I. and the Archduke Charles of Austria, in which the latter was defeated, with the loss of 6000 men and 16 guns.
Eckmühl
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 184
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