Austerlitz

a small town of Moravia, on the Littawa, 13 miles S. B. of Briinn. In the vicinity, on Dec. 2, 1805, was fought the famous battle that bears its name, between the French army of 80,000 men, commanded by Napoleon, and the combined Ru ian and Austrian armies, numbering 84,000, under their respective Emperors; in which the former achieved a signal victory.