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A VISIT TO ASPERN AND WAGRAM. 
dancy. “ You Massena,” he said, ff will complete what yon have so 
gloriously begun. You can alone restrain the Archduke, and prevent 
his advancing during the few days which are necessary towards estab¬ 
lishing our communications.'’'’ His fortitude, as well as the justice of 
his views, won his lieutenants round to his ideas, and they resolved to 
defend the Lobau to the last extremity. 
In awarding praise and blame for the two days* fight, which had 
witnessed such a horrible massacre and no decisive result, one feels 
constrained to speak in limited terms, and with qualified approval. 
