Hanging with History

1805 - 1807 Napoleon's Glory Years, Part 1


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1805, Ulm and Austerlitz and the events that lead up to the War of the 3rd Coalition.  These are events that reveal genius in action.

This means the Pichegru and Moreau plot.  The subsequent murder, or sorry, completely legal execution of the young prince of the house of Bourbon-Conde.  "It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder."  This all hastens the inevitable - the crowning of Napoleon as Emperor.

It is as Emperor that Napoleon goes out to smash the armies of the Two emperors (Czarand Kaiser) at Austerlitz.  Though Napoleon has quite the assist from Franz Weyrother.


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Hanging with HistoryBy Harald Hansen

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