Comparing the Battles of Austerlitz and Waterloo
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Comparing the Battles of Austerlitz and Waterloo
~**~Austerlitz~**~
Aka. Napoleon's Greatest Victory
Participants: France vs. Austria and Russia (financial backing from England)
Commanders: France's commander ~ Napoleon
Russia's commander ~ M.I. Goleniscev-Kutuzov
Austria's commander~ General Karl Mac
England's commander~ Horatio Nelson
When: December 2, 1805
Where: In Austerlitz, a place located in modern day Czechoslovakia (Near Lake Satschan)
Strategies of Napoleon and the Allies:
After minor squirmishes during the night, three Allies columns with the Austrian vanguard attacked, after seven o'clock in the morning, the French positions on the line between the villages Sokolnice and Telnice and conquered both villages before ten o'clock. Hidden by thick fog, the French corps I and IV headed towards Pratecke hills and, just after eleven o'clock, began to endanger the rear of the Allies army in the Golden Stream Valley. Around eight o'clock, Bagration launched an attack along the Olomouc road against the Santon hill and conquered the village of Tvarozna. One of the French divisions managed to penetrate into a three-mile-wide gap between the Allies' right wing and their position on Pratecke hills. The success of the French army's centre was thus expanded to its left wing. Bagration was forced to retreat...