battle, landmark, Revolutionary and Napoleonic
Battle of Austerlitz
Battle of Austerlitz was a battle fought on 2 December 1805 at Slavkov u Brna, in what is now Czech Republic. It was part of the War of the Third Coalition, which ran from 1805 to 1806. The recorded result: French victory.
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Record
| Date | 2 December 1805 | |
|---|---|---|
| Place | Slavkov u Brna, Czech Republic 49.128N, 16.762E | |
| Part of | War of the Third Coalition (1805 to 1806) | |
| Kind | Battle, Revolutionary and Napoleonic | |
| Result | French victory | |
| Territorial change | Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire and creation of the Confederation of the Rhine | |
| Belligerents | First French Empire; Napoleonic Italy | Russian Empire; Austrian Empire |
| Commanders | Napoleon I; Jean-Baptiste Bessières; Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte; Louis-Nicolas Davout; Jean-de-Dieu Soult; Jean Lannes; Géraud Duroc; Joachim Murat; Louis-Vincent-Joseph Le Blond de Saint-Hilaire; Nicolas Oudinot; Claude Juste Alexandre Legrand; Dominique Vandamme | Alexander I; Mikhail Kutuzov; Pyotr Bagration; Konstantin Pavlovich; Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden; Mikhail Miloradovich; Dmitry Dokhturov; Louis de Langeron; Ignaty Przybyszewski; Francis I; Franz von Weyrother; Michael von Kienmayer; Johann Kollowrat; Johann I Joseph |
| Strength | 65,000–75,000 | |
Nearest engagements
- Siege of Brno (1645) 1645, 13 km
- Siege of Brno 1742, 14 km
- Fight at the Golden Deer grove 1945, 17 km
- Battle of Ořechov 1945, 17 km
- Battle at Wischau 1805, 24 km
In the same war
- Before: Battle at Wischau 28 November 1805
- After: Siege of Gaeta 26 February 1806
- All 21 engagements of War of the Third Coalition
Elsewhere in 1805
- Battle of Ulm Germany
- Battle of Derna Libya
- Battle of Cape Ortegal Spain
- Battle of Ivankovac Serbia
- Battle of Diamond Rock France
Battle of Austerlitz is one of 2,483 engagements of the 19th century in the atlas and one of 139 in present-day Czech Republic.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q134114, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Austerlitz, revision 1385355244, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.