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Noun: battle of Austerlitz
  1. A decisive battle during the Napoleonic campaigns (1805); the French under Napoleon defeated the Russian armies of Czar Alexander I and the Austrian armies of Emperor Francis II
    - Austerlitz

Type of: pitched battle

Part of: Napoleonic Wars

Encyclopedia: Battle of Austerlitz