Ulm Campaign
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The Ulm campaign was a series of French and Bavarian military maneuvers and battles to outflank and capture an Austrian army in 1805 during the War of the Third Coalition. It took place in the vicinity of and inside the Swabian city of Ulm. The French Grande Armée, led by Emperor Napoleon, had 210,000 troops organized into seven corps and hoped to knock out the Austrian army in the Danube before Russian reinforcements could arrive. Rapid marching let Napoleon conduct a large wheeling maneuver, which captured an Austrian army of 60,000 under Feldmarschall-Leutnant (FML) Karl Freiherr Mack von Leiberich on 20 October at Ulm. The campaign is by some military historians regarded as a strategic masterpiece and was influential in the development of the Schlieffen Plan in the late 19th century. Napoleon himself wrote:
- four months of marching about, months of fatigue and wretchedness, have proved to me that nothing is more hideous, more miserable, than war. And yet our sufferings in the Guard are not to be compared with those of the line.
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Napoleon Addressing the 2nd Corps of his Army at the Bridge over the Lech at Augsburg, Germany, on October 12, 1805 (Claude Gautherot)- Game Theory in a Napoleonic Context: Establishing Napoleon's Utility and Application to the 1805 War of the Third Coalition - 2013 master's thesis by Gareth A. Ranger at University of Waikato, Q1860, online
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| commons | image | Reddition d'Ulm, G.34401 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Napoleon ulm | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Ulm capitulation (3) | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Napoleon Addressing the 2nd Corps of his Army at the Bridge over the Lech at Augsburg, Germany, on October 12, 1805 (Claude Gautherot) | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Charles Thévenin - Reddition de la ville d'UlmFXD | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Charles Thévenin - Reddition de la ville d'Ulm (3) | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Berthon Napoleone 1808 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Ulm capitulation (2) | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Französisch 19. Jahrhundert - Die Einnahme von Ulm (nach Wilhelm von Kobell) - 10670 - Bavarian State Painting Collections | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Napoléon rend hommage au courage malheureux. | Commons | ||








