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Johann von Klenau (1758–1819) was a field marshal in the Habsburg army, and fought in Austria's wars with the Ottoman Empire, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the Napoleonic Wars. In the early years of the French Revolutionary Wars, he distinguished himself at the First Battle of Wissembourg in 1793, and led a battle-winning charge at Handschuhsheim in 1795. As commander of the Coalition's left flank in the Adige campaign in northern Italy in 1799, he was instrumental in isolating the French-held fortresses on the Po River by organizing and supporting a peasant uprising. He led key elements of the army at the victory at Aspern-Esslingen and its defeat at Wagram, where his troops covered the retreat of the main force. He commanded the IV Corps at the 1813 Battle of Dresden and at the Battle of Nations at Leipzig, preventing the French from outflanking the main Austrian force on the first day of the engagement. He then organized and implemented the successful Dresden blockade and negotiated the French capitulation there. In the 1814–15 campaign, he commanded the Corps Klenau of the Army of Italy. After the war in 1815, Klenau was appointed commanding general in Moravia and Silesia. (Full article...)

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Five UN peacekeepers and seven civilian staff members are killed by rebels in Jonglei, South Sudan.

At least 37 people are killed and 850 are injured when a 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes the Iranian province of Bushehr.

A gunman kills 13 people in a spree shooting in the village of Velika Ivanča, Serbia.

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (pictured) dies at the age of 87.

Filip Vujanović is re-elected as President of Montenegro.

In horse racing, Auroras Encore wins the Grand National.

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On this day...

April 13: Vaisakhi (Sikhism); Thingyan begins in Burma; Lao New Year in Laos

1598 – King Henry IV of France issued the Edict of Nantes, granting freedom of religion to the Huguenots.

1777 – American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian forces conducted a surprise attack against a Continental Army outpost at Bound Brook, New Jersey.

1829 – The Roman Catholic Relief Act was granted Royal Assent, removing the most substantial restrictions on Catholics in the United Kingdom.

1943 – The neoclassical Jefferson Memorial (pictured) in Washington, D.C., was formally dedicated on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth.

1943 – World War II: German news announced the discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile and the USSR.

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Sunset is the daily disappearance of the Sun below the western horizon, and often results in an intense orange and red coloration of the Sun and the surrounding sky. Locations north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle experience no sunset or sunrise on at least one day of the year.

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