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"One razor-sharp blow and the conflict is over." - Napoleon For those questioning why generals persisted using tactics from the Napoleonic Time even as technology altered the battlefield, the Challenge of Austerlitz might provide the best answer. Napoleon is regarded as one of history's best generals, and Austerlitz was his best success. In 1805, Britain, Austria, and Russia allied together to form the Third Coalition contrary to the French, and the Third Coalition's forces contains armies from Austria and Russia, with Britain providing naval support as well as its financial power. Napoleon possessed already defeated and mainly destroyed an Austrian army in Oct at Ulm before it could link up with the Russians, establishing the stage for the Challenge of Austerlitz to be the culmination of the conflict against the Third Coalition all together in early December. Despite the smashing success at Ulm, Napoleon's French army would still be well outnumbered at Austerlitz by a joint Russo-Austrian army in a struggle that would also become known as the Challenge of Three Emperors. The Challenge of Austerlitz was a tactical masterpiece that observed Napoleon actually invite an invasion on his army by the larger Coalition army, and during the period of about 9 time, the French efficiently defended their right flank while counterattacking in the center and splitting the Russo-Austrian army in two, allowing the French to hit the flank of the advancing left wing of the enemy. The result was a decisive success that nearly annihilated the Third Coalition's army and made Napoleon the get better at of the Western european continent.
