Battle of Austerlitz | |||||||||
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Part of the War of the Third Coalition | |||||||||
![]() Napoléon at the Battle of Austerlitz, by François Gérard (Galerie des Batailles, Versailles) | |||||||||
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Strength | |||||||||
65,000–68,000 (not including III Corps)[1] | 84,000–95,000[2] | ||||||||
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In the battle of Austerlitz, Napoleon Bonaparte fought Russian and Austrian troops. The battle took place near Austerlitz (now in the Czech Republic) in 1805. Napoleon’s big victory let him create the Confederation of the Rhine. The book War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy contains a detailed description of the battle.
The battle sometimes (as of the 2020s) gets acted out (or reenacted).[5]