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track of the battles resulted in losses Napoleon had often got away from paying in other campaigns. These would not remain
unpaid in the Battle of Aspern-Essling. St. Hilaire, one of Napoleon's Generals, had a leg shattered and then died from infections. Marshall Lannes had seen one of his favorite Generals--Pouzet-- killed in front of him and then Lannes himself went to grieve his loss and was himself struck in the legs by a cannonball. The Gods of War were probably very
amused by all this bloodshed but Bonaparte must have been shocked at the loss of
leeway these Titans had given him before this as his Marshall Lannes also soon died from infection setting into his legs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-V..._Saint-Hilaire
http://www.arcdetriomphe.info/officers/pouzet/
http://www.wtj.com/archives/savary/sav020209.htm