The Fifth Coalition is an alliance between the Austria and the the United Kingdom formed in 1809 to fight the French Empire of Napoleon.
The the United Kingdom in war on the seas against France, and is always combined to the Spanish rebels in the Iberian peninsula. Austria raises a new army to try to reverse the assessment of the preceding defeats which led to the Traité of Presbourg. In spite of some minor defensive victories, the absence of the coalition of the Russia or Prussia makes it possible Napoleon to inflict in Austria, exceeded of number, an important defeat with the Bataille of Wagram.
Austria is obliged to sign the Traité of Schönbrunn, leaving even more territory to France and its allies. The archduchess Marie-Louise Napoleon wife.
See too
- First coalition
- Second coalition
- Third coalition
- Fourth coalition
- Sixth coalition
- Seventh coalition
- War of Spain
- Battle of the fifth coalition:
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