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Friday, 29 March 2019

French flotilla returning from the Danube according to the Dutch newspaper Koninklijke Courant dated 31 January 1810

Paris, 8 January. The flotilla of warships and transports on the Donau of which the last vessels departed 25 November from Vienna and 29 November from Closter-Neuburg arrived in December at Passau without any incidents underway. The gunboat le Wagram (1), a transport loaded with official charters and another transport with stores of the corps engineers were the last ships to arrive. They were waited with impatience caused by the fear for eventual problems with the ice on the river. The flotilla transported a large amount of stores from the army from Vienna towards Passau including 4,000 boxes with precious government charters which were brought with carriages towards Strassbourg.

Note
1. J. Vichot. Répertoire des navires de guerre francais. Paris, 1967, does not mention a gunboat with this name.