Johann von Klenau (1758–1819) was a field marshal in the Habsburg army, and fought in Austria's wars with the Ottoman Empire, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the Napoleonic Wars. In the early years of the French Revolutionary Wars, he distinguished himself at the First Battle of Wissembourg in 1793, and led a battle-winning charge at Handschuhsheim in 1795. As commander of the Coalition's left flank in the Adige campaign in northern Italy in 1799, he was instrumental in isolating the French-held fortresses on the Po River by organizing and supporting a peasant uprising. He led key elements of the army at the victory at Aspern-Esslingen and its defeat at Wagram, where his troops covered the retreat of the main force. He commanded the IV Corps at the 1813 Battle of Dresden and at the Battle of Nations at Leipzig, preventing the French from outflanking the main Austrian force on the first day of the engagement. He then organized and implemented the successful Dresden blockade and negotiated the French capitulation there. In the 1814–15 campaign, he commanded the Corps Klenau of the Army of Italy. After the war in 1815, Klenau was appointed commanding general in Moravia and Silesia.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1598:
King Henry IV of France issued the Edict of Nantes, granting freedom of religion to the Huguenots. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Nantes
1777:
American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian forces conducted a surprise attack against a Continental Army outpost at Bound Brook, New Jersey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bound_Brook
1829:
The Roman Catholic Relief Act was granted Royal Assent, removing the most substantial restrictions on Catholics in the United Kingdom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Relief_Act_1829
1943:
The neoclassical Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., was formally dedicated on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Memorial
1943:
World War II: German news announced the discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile and the USSR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
pink slime: 1. (paper manufacture) An undesirable pink-colored microbial mass occurring in the slurry used in making paper. 2. (informal) A meat byproduct produced from otherwise unusable material such as skin and connective tissue, spinal bones, and digestive tissue by heating and then mixing with ammonia in a centrifuge to produce a food additive. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pink_slime
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Let us do something while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed that we personally are needed. Others would meet the case equally well, if not better. To all mankind they were addressed, those cries for help still ringing in our ears! But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for once the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us! --Samuel Beckett https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Beckett