Austerlitz: the battle of the two emperors: the greatest battle of Napoleon's career took place two hundred years ago, on December 2nd, 1805. Although it is often called the Battle of the Three Emperors, Michael Adams sees it as a very personal clash between two men struggling for the mastery of Europe.

History Today | December 1, 2005| | Copyright

This year has seen much commemoration in Britain of the bicentenary of Nelson's great victory at Trafalgar, but that was not the only famous battle fought in 1805. Just six weeks later, on December 2nd, more than 150,000 men in two mighty armies clashed near the small town of Austerlitz (modern Slavkov) in the eastern part of what is now the Czech Republic. This time the French came out on top, inflicting the kind of decisive defeat on their opponents--the combined forces of Austria and Russia--that Nelson had so recently handed out to the Franco-Spanish fleet.

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