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• n  a town in Czech Republic; site of the battle of Austerlitz in 1805
• n  a decisive battle during the Napoleonic campaigns (1805); the French under Napoleon defeated the Russian armies of Czar Alexander I and the Austrian armies of Emperor Francis II

• Austerlitz
• battle of Austerlitz

News & Articles

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• State Police charge wrong-way driver with DWI
  AUSTERLITZ, N.Y. (AP) -- State police say a 47-year-old Hudson Valley woman was more than two times over the legal limit for driving while intoxicated when she drove the wrong way on an eastern New York highway.
  June 26, 2013 - Middletown Times Herald-Record
• Kingston woman, 47, arrested for DWI after allegedly driving wrong way on Taconic State Parkway
  AUSTERLITZ, N.Y. - A Kingston woman with a suspended license allegedly drove the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway while intoxicated on Monday afternoon, state police reported.
  June 26, 2013 - Kingston Daily Freeman
• NY State Police charge wrong-way driver with DWI
  AUSTERLITZ, N.Y. (AP) - State police say a 47-year-old Hudson Valley woman was more than two times over the legal limit for driving while intoxicated when she drove the wrong way on an eastern New York highway.
  June 26, 2013 - New Jersey Herald

Quotes

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• Peer Steinbrueck in Reuters
  I would have liked to know whether he played chess in the same way he planned out his campaigns, especially the battle of Austerlitz,Steinbrueck told the newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung in an interview.
• Victor Hugo in guardian.co.uk
  If it hadn't rained during the night of June 17-18, 1815,writes Hugo, "the future of Europe would have been different. A few drops of water, more or less, brought Napoléon to his knees. So that Waterloo could be the end of Austerlitz,...