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"The Saxons themselves," Friedrich observes, "had some 40,000, but scattered about; King in Warsaw: dreadful terror; making COUPURES and TETES-DE-PONT; could have made no defence." Had we diligently spent eight days on them! reflects he afterwards.
The battle of Aspern was fought on the 22d of May, to-day is the 3d of July; and in the mean time nothing has been done. The enemy remained quietly on the island of Lobau, nursing his wounded, reorganizing his troops, erecting TETES-DE-PONT, and building bridges; and the generalissimo stood with his whole army on the bank of the Danube, and took great pains to watch in idleness the busy enemy.
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