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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_von_Klenau>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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