La Bataille de Aspern-Essling 1809

And far away in the South Seas, in an unusual interaction between the indigenous people of New Zealand and the always active British, the Whangaroa Māori kill and eat 66 crew and passengers of the brigantine Boyd in New Zealand. When news of

the massacre reached European settlements, Captain Alexander Berry undertook a rescue mission aboard The City of Edinburgh . Berry rescued the four survivors, Ann Morley, her baby, Thomas Davis (or Davison) and Betsy Broughton. The City of Edinburgh crew found piles of human bones on the shoreline, with strong suggestions of cannibalism. Captain Berry captured two Māori chiefs responsible for the massacre; at first holding them for ransom for the return of survivors. Subsequently, after the survivors were returned, Berry threatened them that the chiefs would be taken to Europe in order to answer for their crimes unless they released the Boyd's papers. After the papers were given to him, he released the chiefs. Captain Berry made it a condition of the chiefs’ release that they would be "degraded from their rank, and received among the number of his slaves," although he never had expected this condition to be honored. They expressed gratitude for the mercy. Berry's gesture avoided further bloodshed — an inevitability had the chiefs been executed.

Despite his growing loss of hearing, van Beethoven continues to create. His is funded by many prominent people in Vienna including Archduke Rudolf. The effects of these financial arrangements were undermined to some extent by war with France, which caused significant inflation when the government printed money to fund its war efforts. Beethoven said, "I am not satisfied with the work I have done so far. From now on I intend to take a new way.”

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