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The battle and the breeze reciter

Alfred H. Miles (1848–1929), 1914

Named on the page for Battle of Austerlitz.

machine-read Machine-read (OCR) from a scanned book at the Internet Archive: expect misread words and names. The scan itself is at the library.

draft Matched to the battle automatically; not yet reviewed.

Passages that name the battle; the whole collection is at Internet Archive.

2 December 1805

Battle of Austerlitz

THE LOST STANDARD

(1805)

Upon the field of Austerlitz

Napoleon stood when the day was o'er ;
" Legions of France ! " he cried, " pass by,

Public domain. Text from Internet Archive.