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unusual facts about War of the Fifth Coalition



Baptiste Pierre Bisson

The beginning of the War of the Fifth Coalition found him leading a column of 2,050 conscripts from Italy to Bavaria over the Brenner Pass.

Laa an der Thaya

It had remained a sedate county town, when Napoleon marched through in 1809 during the War of the Fifth Coalition; however, Laa's development was decisively promtoted by the opening of a railway connection to Austria's capital Vienna in 1869, a branch line of the Eastern Railway, which further led to Hevlín and Brno (Brünn) in Moravia.


see also

Siege of Magdeburg

Siege of Magdeburg (1809), a siege of the German city by a Prussian partisan force under Ferdinand von Schill during the War of the Fifth Coalition, resulting in the defeat of a French garrison