War of the Third Coalition
1805 – 1806 · Central Europe
Result French victory
Britain, Austria, Russia and Sweden formed a coalition against Napoleon's France. Napoleon destroyed the Austrian and Russian armies at Ulm and Austerlitz, and Austria left the war in the Peace of Pressburg.
Coalition
French Empire and allies
William Pitt the Younger
belligerent leader
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
belligerent leader
Alexander I of Russia
belligerent leader
Horatio Nelson
belligerent leader
Mikhail Kutuzov
belligerent leader
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
belligerent leader
Karl Mack von Leiberich
belligerent leader
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen
belligerent leader
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Napoleon
military commander
Charles IV of Spain
belligerent leader
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve
belligerent leader
Michel Ney
belligerent leader
Louis-Nicolas Davout
belligerent leader
Joachim Murat
belligerent leader
Charles XIV John
military commander
Auguste de Marmont
belligerent leader
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André Masséna
belligerent leader
Jean Lannes
belligerent leader
Pierre Augereau
military commander
Eugène de Beauharnais
belligerent leader
Jean-de-Dieu Soult
belligerent leader
Carl Philipp von Wrede
belligerent leader
Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria
belligerent leader
Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck
belligerent leader
Jean-Baptiste Bessières
military commander
Strength and losses
Austrian Empire Casualties 20,000 · Captured 70,000
Spain Killed 1,200 · Wounded 1,600
France Killed 13,500 · Wounded 37,000 · Captured 5,000
Battles 20
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Trafalgar campaign March 1805 – November 1805 · British victory
- Battle of Cape Finisterre (1805) July 22, 1805 · Inconclusive
- Ulm campaign September 25 – October 20, 1805 · French victory
- Battle of Wertingen October 8, 1805 · French victory
- Battle of Günzburg October 9, 1805 · French victory
- Battle of Haslach-Jungingen October 11, 1805 · French victory
- Battle of Elchingen October 14, 1805 · French victory
- Battle of Verona (1805) October 18, 1805 · French victory
- Battle of Caldiero (1805) October 30, 1805 · French victory
- Battle of Mehrnbach October 30, 1805 · French victory
- Battle of Lambach October 31 – November 1, 1805 · French victory
- Battle of Steyr November 4, 1805 · French victory
- Battle of Amstetten November 5, 1805 · French victory
- Battle of Dürenstein November 11, 1805
- Battle of Schöngrabern November 16, 1805 · French victory
- Battle of Castelfranco Veneto November 24, 1805 · French victory
- Battle of Wischau November 28, 1805 · Russian victory
- Invasion of Naples (1806) February 8 – July 18, 1806 · French victory
- Siege of Gaeta (1806) February 26 – July 18, 1806 · French victory
- Battle of Campo Tenese March 10, 1806 · French victory
- Battle of Maida July 4, 1806 · British victory
Before and after
- Ended by
- Peace of Pressburg (1805) 1805
