Discovery Knowledge Great Battles 2 - Austerlitz

The Battle of Austerlitz also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors was Napoleons greatest victory where the French Empire effectively crushed the Third Coalition. On 2 December 1805 (20 November Old Style 11 Frimaire XIV in the French Republican Calendar) a French army commanded by Emperor Napoleon I decisively defeated a Russo-Austrian army commanded by Tsar Alexander I after nearly nine hours of difficult fighting.