Associations to the word «Austerlitz»

Dictionary definition

AUSTERLITZ, noun. A town in Czech Republic; site of the battle of Austerlitz in 1805.
AUSTERLITZ, noun. 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.

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John Locke