No. 9 To the Empress, at Plombières
Schoenbrunn, June 16, 1809.
I despatch a page to tell you that, on the 14th, the anniversary of Marengo, Eugène won a battle against the Archduke John and the Archduke Palatine, at Raab, in Hungary; that he has taken 3000 men, many pieces of cannon, 4 flags, and pursued them a long way on the road to Buda-Pesth.
Napoleon.
June 18th.—Combat of Belchite. Blake defeated by Suchet near Saragossa.