Wagram Journal — August Schultz 1910 Battle of Wagram 1809 French Soldiers Napoleonic School Chart

On 5–6 July 1809, Napoleon Bonaparte fought and won the Battle of Wagram on the plains north of Vienna — the largest battle of his career to that point, and his last great decisive victory. 154,000 French against 136,000 Austrians across two days on the flat Marchfeld, culminating in a massed battery of more than a hundred guns that broke the Austrian centre and ended the War of the Fifth Coalition. In 1910, the Danish educator August Schultz documented that battle and the French Grande Armée in his Verdenshistoriske Billedark — World History Picture Sheets — a series of chromolithographic school charts that brought the drama of military history into the classrooms of early twentieth-century Scandinavia with the visual clarity and historical precision of the finest educational illustration of the age.

The front cover carries Schultz’s chart of the French soldiers of the Grande Armée at Wagram — infantry in their distinctive blue coats and shakos, cavalry in their colourful uniforms, artillery with their field guns, and Napoleon I himself depicted with the authority that made him the most recognisable military commander in European history. The back cover presents the French tactical formations — the infantry squares, cavalry charges, and massed artillery batteries that defined Napoleonic warfare at its most sophisticated. Together they wrap the journal in a complete portrait of the Grande Armée at the height of its power, documented by Schultz with the precision of a military historian and the visual clarity of a great teacher.

Product Details

• Format: Hardcover journal
• Pages: 150 lined pages (75 sheets) with perforations for easy removal
• Binding: Casewrap sewn binding — flexible and lay-flat
• Dimensions: 5.75 × 8 inches
• Weight: 100 g
• Cover: Matte laminated full-wrap print
• Illustration: August Schultz, Verdenshistoriske Billedark (1910) — Battle of Wagram 1809, French soldiers
• Danish educational school chart — Grande Armée infantry, cavalry, artillery and Napoleon I

Perfect For

• Napoleonic Wars enthusiasts and military historians
• Wargamers and French Empire collectors
• Admirers of vintage Scandinavian educational illustration
• Students and researchers of the 1809 campaign
• Writers and creatives inspired by the drama of the Napoleonic era
• A striking gift for anyone captivated by Napoleon and the Grande Armée

The Story Behind the Chart

The War of the Fifth Coalition, the great battery of a hundred guns that decided Wagram, and how August Schultz brought the drama of Napoleonic warfare into the classrooms of Scandinavia — read the full story on our blog →