Talk:Battle of Austerlitz

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Contents 1 180 2 Artillery captured 3 'American' General Kutuzov 4 Austerldiitz ??? 5 Folklore 6 Naming 7 Location Vandalism 8 Location distance from Brno 9 Allied commander? 10 Why did the battle occur?? 11 Height of Pratzen Heights incorrect

[edit] 180

--Diablorex 16:39, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

???UberCryxic 19:23, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Artillery captured

The 'Aftermath' states there were 180 cannons captured, yet Napoleon's speech states they captured 120 artillery pieces. Which is it?

--24.72.119.125 21:19, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Perhaps Napoleon's speech would have been more percise; It placed the number lower. NapoleonAlanparte 11:09, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 'American' General Kutuzov

why does the article say "American" general Kutuzov?

• Because someone felt that this page needs to be vandalized.

Just check the history - it happened several times in past days. Now - 10/12 at 14.09 GMT - it is OK, it is repaired. User:Radoneme

[edit] Austerldiitz ???

From the article "Austerldiitz (the modern town of Slavkov u Brna in the Czech Republic)...". Is this vandalization too? Saigon from europe 18:44, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Folklore

There are some myths and stories about the battle included in the article - one of which is:

"Another story features an unfortunate French soldier running from Cossacks; apparently, the soldier climbed through a chimney trying to hide, but the Cossacks found and killed him anyway."

Is something missing from this? It seems like a pretty ordinary event from a battle at this time - a guy runs away, tries to hide, gets killed. Ok, it's a chimney - but still it seems a bit pointless Gardar Rurak 00:43, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Naming

I made some minor changes, inserting the Czech name Slavkov u Brno and the German name Brünn, clarifying historic and modern place names. Sca 14:57, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Now it seems someone has reverted my changes out. Who, and why? Sca 17:10, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

The page was vandalized and a paragraph was removed from the introduction. The vandalism was removed, but the removed paragraph was not restored in that edit. Attilios then restored the removed paragraph by (presumably) editing an older version of the page which did not have your edits included. Olessi 19:44, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Wow....that vandal is funny and has an active imagination.--64.121.1.55 23:41, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Location Vandalism

I couldnt revert it, could some one please revert the obvious vandalism.--64.121.1.55 05:27, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Can you be more specific? I don't see anything obvious. -- Jim Douglas ^(talk) _(contribs) 05:47, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Someone already fixed it.--64.121.1.55 23:40, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Location distance from Brno

I cite from article: "The battle took place at Austerlitz (Slavkov u Brna) about 6.5 km (four miles) east of Brünn (Brno) in Moravia." If you look at the map, you see the battle took place between Brno and Slavkov. In fact, centers of Brno and Slavkov are more than 20 kms far away (I guess some 28 kms, but I do not remember precisely). As the military actions took place on large area, this characterization (6.5 km from Brno) seems to be very unprecise and perhaps even wrong. --Ruziklan 21:07, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Allied commander?

Wasn't Kutuzov commander of coalition forces at Austerlitz?--Staberinde 12:46, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

No, he was not. He was one of the commanders there, but the overarching commander was the Czar by general agreement between the Austrians and the Russians. If Kutuzov had been the commander, no one today would have heard of that little village called Austerlitz because there would not have been a battle.UberCryxic 21:52, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why did the battle occur??

Why did the battle occur in the first place??

Someone answer. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.42.21.81 (talk) 04:42, 14 December 2006 (UTC).

Napoleon was threatened by the Third Coalition, and wanted to defeat the Russian and Austrian decisively. The more bellicose Austrians and Russians persuaded their more cautious colleagues to fight. -- ALoan (Talk) 11:30, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Height of Pratzen Heights incorrect

I live in the village of Prace, below the Pratzen Heights, and I can assure you it is much more than 40 feet high ! I will find out it's true height as soon as I can and get back to you.

62.92.82.7 15:19, 1 February 2007 (UTC)