War of the Third Coalition

European history

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Battle of Austerlitz

  • Meeting Between Napoleon I and Francis I After the Battle of Austerlitz, 4 December 1805
    In Battle of Austerlitz

    …the first engagement of the War of the Third Coalition and one of Napoleon’s greatest victories. The battle took place at Austerlitz in Moravia (now Slavkov u Brna, Czech Republic). Napoleon’s 68,000 troops defeated almost 90,000 Russians and Austrians nominally under Gen. Mikhail Kutuzov, forcing Austria to make peace with…

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Battle of Eylau

    Gentz

    • Gentz, Friedrich
      In Friedrich Gentz: Early life and career.

      …a series of disappointments: the War of the Third Coalition (1805–07) ended with the allied defeat at the Battle of Austerlitz and a rapprochement between Russia and France, and the Fourth Coalition ended with a Franco-Austrian alliance cemented by Napoleon’s marriage to a Habsburg archduchess. Gentz found himself in a…

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