US EditionThe Battle of Austerlitz: Napoleon’s Greatest Battle
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The troops arrived in Villena, where they took the castle after 7 days of siege.The Bourbon army had to retreat little by little before the entry of the Austrians, until the Duke of Berwick, leader of the troops, decided to take advantage of that delay of the Austrians to establish the camp in Pétrola and from there, organized with the arrival of more men. Berwick moved the troops to Almansa due to the provisions that he had there and decided to…
The Battle of Austerlitz: Napoleon’s Greatest Battle
On December 2, 1805, Emperor Napoleon’s Grande Armée faced off against an allied Austro-Russian army near Austerlitz (Slavkov u Brna, Czech Republic). By enticing the enemy to attack his understrength right flank, Napoleon struck at the enemy center. Napoleon’s bold tactics enabled his men to split the coalition army in two over the course of the bloody struggle. The Battle of Austerlitz, widely considered Napoleon’s tactical masterpiece, brough…
The outcome of the Battle of Almansa, on the fateful 25th of April 1707, came as no surprise to anyone with the slightest understanding of military strategy. With a clear imbalance of forces – 25,000 Bourbon soldiers against a mere 15,000 Austrians – and with the Allied commands divided and without any coherent strategy, disaster was foreseeable from the start. It should be remembered that what was decided that day in Almansa far transcended the…
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