Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's brilliant 1805 campaign culminates in victory at Austerlitz. If you cross paths with these ...

"A battle was fought today," Francis wrote his wife, "which did not turn out very well." Austerlitz had raised Napoleon’s star to new heights. He had won his greatest victory, the victory of ...

Defeating the Prussian army at the battles of Jéna and Auerstädt, Napoleon captured 140,000 ... but the Russians — bloodied after Austerlitz — and Great Britain — all powerful on the ...