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The battle is often cited by military historians as one of Napoleon's tactical masterpieces, in the same league as other historic engagements like Cannae or Gaugamela. [ 9 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The military victory of Napoleon 's Grande Armée at Austerlitz brought the War of the Third Coalition to an end, with the Peace of Pressburg signed by the ...
The Battle on the Ice, [b] also known as the Battle of Lake Peipus (German: Schlacht auf dem Peipussee or am Peipussee) or Battle of Lake Chud (Russian: битва на Чудском озере, romanized: bitva na Chudskom ozere), took place on 5 April 1242.
Battle Of Austerlitz, 2 December 1805 is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French painter François Gérard from 1810. The painting depicts the moment at the conclusion of the Battle of Austerlitz in which the French General Jean Rapp presents to Napoleon Bonaparte the captured Prince Repnin, commander of the Russian Imperial Guard, signifying the victory of Napoleon’s army over the combined ...
about 530 – Battle on the Ice of Lake Vänern, recorded in Norse sagas and referred to in the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf; 1241 - Battle of Mohi on the Sajo River; 1242 – Battle on the Ice on Lake Peipus; 1270 – Battle of Karuse on the frozen Baltic Sea between the Island of Muhu and the mainland
Napoleon could muster some 75,000 men and 157 guns for the impending battle, but about 7,000 troops under Davout were still far to the south in the direction of Vienna. [50] The Allies had about 73,000 soldiers, seventy percent of them Russian, and 318 guns. [ 50 ]
The Battle of (the) Berezina (or Beresina) took place from 26 to 29 November 1812, between Napoleon's Grande Armée and the Imperial Russian Army under Field Marshal Wittgenstein and Admiral Chichagov. Napoleon was retreating toward Poland in chaos after the aborted occupation of Moscow and trying to cross the Berezina River at Borisov. The ...
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The Capture of the Dutch fleet at Den Helder on the night of 23 January 1795 presents a rare occurrence of an interaction between warships and cavalry, in which a French Revolutionary Hussar regiment came close to a Dutch fleet frozen at anchor in the Nieuwediep, just east of the town of Den Helder.