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The Career of Napoleon Bonaparte 467 were powerless. The English army under the Duke of Welling- ton slowly but surely drove the French back over the Pyrenees. Napoleon's ultimate downfall was in no small measure due to this ill-advised Peninsular War. 824. War with Austria (ISOQ) ; Battle of Wagram. In April, 1809, Austria ventured to declare war once more on the "enemy Music ROOM IN THE PALACE OF COMPIEGNE Napoleon used the various palaces erected by the previous rulers of France. That at Compiegne, fifty miles from Paris, was built by Louis XV. The smaller harp was made, it is said, for Napoleon's heir, the "King of Rome," as his father called him. However, when Napoleon abdicated in 1814, the boy was but three years old, and was carried off to Austria by his Austrian mother, Maria Louisa. He was known by the Bonapartists as Napoleon II, but never ruled over France of Europe," but this time she found no one to aid her. The great battle of Wagram, near Vienna (July 5-6), was perhaps not so unconditional a victory for the French as that of Austerlitz, but it forced Austria into just as humiliating a peace as that of Pressburg. Austria's object had been to destroy Napoleon's sys- tem of dependencies and "to restore to their rightful possessors all those lands belonging to them respectively before the Napo- leonic usurpations." Instead of accomplishing this end, Austria was obliged to cede more territory to Napoleon and his allies, and