Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
In October 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte had been Emperor of the French for less than a year. In two weeks he pulled off something rare: he surrounded and captured an Austrian army of about 60,000 troops, with almost no pitched battle.
The campaign turned on Ulm, a fortified town in southern Germany on the Danube. Napoleon proved there that a war can be won by speed and secrecy, not only by a frontal clash.
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- 2Austria attacks too soon
- 3Marching faster than the enemy
- 4An army that surrenders without a battle
- 5The road opens toward Austerlitz
Open-book quiz9 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary11 terms explained in a tap.
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