The War of the Third Coalition was a military conflict in 1805 between an alliance of primarily
Austria,
Portugal,
Russia, and
Great Britain against
France and
its client states under
Napoleon I. Major engagements between France, Austria, and Russia, the main participants on land, unfolded over much of
Central Europe from August to December. Britain, fearing an impending French invasion, dealt a crushing blow to a combined Franco-Spanish fleet at
Trafalgar in October and secured mastery of the seas. The war, however, was decided on the continent, and the major land operations that sealed the swift French victory involved the
Ulm Campaign, a large wheeling manoeuvre by the
Grand Army lasting from late August to mid-October that captured an entire Austrian army, and the
Battle of Austerlitz in early December, which led to a decisive French triumph over a combined Russo-Austrian force under
Tsar Alexander I.
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