Napoleon had positioned one hundred and seventy-seven…

October 1805 CE

Napoleon had positioned one hundred and seventy-seven thousand troops of the new Grande Armée at Boulogne, ready to invade England.

They had marched south on August 27 and by September 24 were ready to cross the Rhine from Mannheim to Strasbourg.

After crossing the Rhine, the greater part of the French army makes a gigantic right wheel so that its corps will reach the Danube simultaneously, facing south.

Mack learns on October 7 that Napoleon planns to cross the Danube and march around his right flank so as to cut him off from the Russians who were marching via Vienna.

He accordingly changes front, placing his left at Ulm and his right at Rain, but the French go on and crossed the Danube at Neuburg, ...

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Neuburg an der Donau Bayern Germany View →

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Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen View → Auguste Marmont View → Ferdinand I of Austria View → Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor View → Joachim Murat View → Karl Mack von Leiberich View → Michel Ney View → Napoleon View → Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult View →

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Austria, Archduchy of View → Bavaria, Wittelsbach Duchy of View → Portugal, Bragança Kingdom of View → Russian Empire View → Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) View → Baden, Electorate and Margravate of View → Austrian Empire View → France, (first) Empire of View → Bavaria, Kingdom of View →

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Napoleonic Wars View → Third Coalition, War of the View → Ulm Campaign View → Haslach-Jungingen, Battle of View →

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