Austerlitz
Three emperors' battle
Austerlitz is a town in Moravia (now Czech Republic) where Napoleon won his most decisive victory in 1805, defeating Austrian and Russian forces.
The battle is studied as a masterpiece of tactical deception and timing.
Austerlitz appears in military and historical contexts as shorthand for brilliant, crushing victory: He planned his corporate takeover like Napoleon at Austerlitz.
French emperor, military genius
- infantryGround combat troops
- cavalryMounted military force
- artilleryLarge-caliber battlefield weapons
- strategyPlanned approach to goals
tactics · engagement · decisive · marshal · generals · troops · encirclement · rout
Central European historical region
- BrnoMoravian regional capital
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- villageSmall rural community
- townMid-sized settlement
pilgrimage · tourism · reenactment · museum · commemoration
New and unusual
- memoryMind's retention capacity
- identityWho someone is
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- narrativeAccount of events
photography · displacement · history · loss · Jacques · architecture · Holocaust · diaspora
Napoleon
French emperor, military genius
strategy · tactics · engagement · decisive · marshal · generals · troops · encirclement · rout
Moravia
Central European historical region
- BrnoMoravian regional capital
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- villageSmall rural community
town · pilgrimage · tourism · reenactment · museum · commemoration
novel
New and unusual
narrative · photography · displacement · history · loss · Jacques · architecture · Holocaust · diaspora · melancholy
AusterlitzWaterloo
Crushing, decisive defeat
Leipzig · Saint Helena · Elba · Trafalgar
AusterlitzWaterloo
Crushing, decisive defeat
Stalingrad · Gallipoli · Custer's Last Stand · Little Bighorn · Dunkirk