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Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.
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Town in Bavaria, Germany
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First French Empire
French empire under Napoleon Bonaparte from 1804 to 1815
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French general and politician, Emperor of the French (r. 1804–1814, 1815)
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Battle of Eckmühl
1809 battle of the War of the Fifth Coalition
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