Aspern (As`pern) , a village in Austria, on the Danube, 4 m. NE. of Vienna, where a charge of the Austrians under the Archduke Charles was defeated by Napoleon, May 21, 1809, and Marshal Lannes killed.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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