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1805: Austerlitz: Napoleon and the Destruction of the Third Coalition
1805 Austerlitz Napoleon and the Destruction of the Third Coalition Author:Robert Goetz Sometimes called The Battle of Three Emperors, Napoleon’s victory against the combined forces of Russia and Austria at Austerlitz brought a decisive end to The War of the Third Coalition. The magnitude of the French achievement against a larger army was met by sheer amazement and delirium in Paris, where just days earlier the nation had be... more »en teetering on the brink of financial collapse.
In 1805: Austerlitz, historian Robert Goetz demonstrates how Napoleon and his Grande Armée of 1805 defeated a formidable professional army that had fought the French armies on equal terms five years earlier. Goetz analyses the planning of the opposing forces and details the course of the battle hour by hour, describing the fierce see-saw battle around Sokolnitz, the epic struggle for the Pratzen Heights, the dramatic engagement between the legendary Lannes and Bagration in the north, and the widely misunderstood clash of Napoleon’s Imperial Guard and Alexander’s Imperial Leib-Guard. Goetz’s detailed and balanced assessment of the battle exposes many myths that have been perpetuated and even embellished in other accounts.« less