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War of the Third Coalition: French forces under Marshal Michel Ney defeated Austrian forces in Elchingen, present-day Germany.
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War of the Third Coalition
1805–1806 conflict during the Napoleonic Wars
The War of the Third Coalition was a European conflict lasting from 1805 to 1806 and was the first conflict of the Napoleonic Wars. During the war, France and its client states under Napoleon I and its ally Spain opposed an alliance, the Third Coalition, which was made up of the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Michel Ney
French military commander (1769–1815)
Michel Ney, 1st Prince de la Moskowa, 1st Duke of Elchingen, was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Battle of Elchingen
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
The Battle of Elchingen, fought on 14 October 1805, saw French forces under Michel Ney rout an Austrian corps led by Johann Sigismund Riesch. This defeat led to a large part of the Austrian army being invested in the fortress of Ulm by the army of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte of…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Elchingen
Settlement in Germany
Elchingen is a municipality about 7 km east of Ulm–Neu-Ulm in the district of Neu-Ulm in Bavaria, Germany.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)