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EQUATORIAL GUINEA - CIRCA 1977: A stamp printed in Equatorial Guinea shows eve of the Battle of Austerlitz, 1805 Royalty Free Stock Photo

Meeting of Napoleon I and Francis II after the Battle of Austerlitz Royalty Free Stock Photo

Meeting of Napoleon and Franz Ist after the battle of Austerlitz. From Gro painting at the Versailles Museum in the old book The Royalty Free Stock Photo

Re-enactment of the Battle of Austerlitz (1805), Czech Republic. Royalty Free Stock Photo

The Battle of Austerlitz, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of Napoleon's greatest victories, where the French Empire effectively crushed the Third Coalition. On 2 December 1805 (20 November Old Style, 11 Frimaire An 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 and Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, after nearly nine hours of difficult fighting. The battle took place near Austerlitz (Slavkov u Brna) about 10 km (6 mi) south-east of Brno in Moravia, at that time in the Austrian Empire (present day Czech Republic). The battle was a tactical masterpiece of the same stature as the ancient battles of Gaugamela and Cannae, in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC.[4]