Talk:Battle of Wagram

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[edit] Paintings

I have a 1902 history book with a b/w reproduction of a painting in it of Napoleon at Wagram, by Horace Vernet. If this article gets longer, and could use another painting, please give me a holler on my talk page, and I'll scan it and post it.--Bcrowell 00:59, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Largest battle in history?

I cut this claim:

(indeed it was the largest battle in world history up until that time)

since it's very hard to substantiate this sort of claim. There are a lot of older battles that are claimed to be larger (cf. Battle of Red Cliffs). Of course, the older claims are likely to be exaggerated, but it would take a lot of effort to sort through the many claims and adjust them; so this kind of debate is best moved to its own article. In the case of naval battles, where there were similar claims, a separate page was created to handle the issue; see Largest naval battle in history. Gdr 12:23, 13 July 2005 (UTC)