Question

Match Column 'A' with Column 'B'

Column A
1. Battle of Trafalgar
2. Battle of Austerlitz
3. Battle of Friedland
4. Battle of Leipzig
5. Batter of Waterloo


Column B
a) France, Prussia and Austria
b) France, Austria, Russia, Prussia, Sweden and England.
c) France and England
d) France, Britain and Prussia
e) France and Russia​

Answer 1

Answer:

The War of the Third Coalition[note 1] was a European conflict spanning the years 1803 to 1806.

Explanation:

Date 18 May 1803 – 18 July 1806

(3 years and 2 months)

Location

Central EuropeItalyAtlantic Ocean

Result

French victory

Treaty of Pressburg

Consolidation of the French Empire

Creation of the Confederation of the Rhine

French conquest of Naples

Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire

Formation of the Fourth Coalition a few months later

Belligerents

Holy Roman Empire Holy Roman Empire

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom

Russian Empire Russia

Naples

Kingdom of Sicily Sicily

Sweden

First French Empire France

Batavian Republic Batavian Republic

Electorate of Bavaria Bavaria

Etruria

Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic) Italy

Spain

Württemberg

Commanders and leaders

Holy Roman Empire Francis II

Holy Roman Empire Archduke Charles

Holy Roman Empire Karl Mack von Leiberich

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Henry Addington

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland William Pitt

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland William Grenville

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Horatio Nelson †

Russian Empire Alexander I

Russian Empire Mikhail Kutuzov

Russian Empire Pyotr Bagration

Russian Empire Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden

Ferdinand IV

Gustav IV Adolf

First French Empire Napoleon I

First French Empire Pierre Augereau

First French Empire Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte

First French Empire Jean-Baptiste Bessières

First French Empire Louis-Nicolas Davout

First French Empire Jean Lannes

First French Empire Auguste de Marmont

First French Empire André Masséna

First French Empire Édouard Mortier

First French Empire Joachim Murat

First French Empire Michel Ney

First French Empire Jean-de-Dieu Soult

First French Empire Pierre-Charles Villeneuve

Electorate of Bavaria Maximilian I

Electorate of Bavaria Karl Philipp von Wrede

Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic) Eugène de Beauharnais

Charles IV

Federico Gravina

Casualties and losses

Holy Roman Empire:

20,000 killed or wounded

70,000 captured

Russia:

25,000 killed or wounded

25,000 captured

Naples:

20,000 killed, wounded or captured

Total casualties:

160,000 killed, wounded or captured

France:

13,500 killed

37,000 wounded

5,000 captured

Italy:

350 killed

1,900 wounded

Spain:

1,200 killed

1,600 wounded

Bavaria:

300 killed

1,200 wounded

Total casualties:

62,050 killed, wounded or captured

Britain had already been at war with France following the breakdown of the Peace of Amiens and remained the only country still at war with France after the Treaty of Pressburg. From 1803 to 1805, Britain stood under constant threat of a French invasion. The Royal Navy, however, secured mastery of the seas and decisively destroyed a Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar in October 1805.

The Third Coalition itself came to full fruition in 1804–05 as Napoleon's actions in Italy and Germany (notably the arrest and execution of the Duc d'Enghien) spurred Austria and Russia into joining Britain against France. The war would be determined on the continent, and the major land operations that sealed the swift French victory involved the Ulm Campaign, a large wheeling manoeuvre by the Grande Armée lasting from late August to mid-October 1805 that captured an entire Austrian army, and the decisive French victory over a combined Austro-Russian force under Tsar Alexander I at the Battle of Austerlitz in early December. Austerlitz effectively brought the Third Coalition to an end, although later there was a small side campaign against Naples, which also resulted in a decisive French victory at the Battle of Campo Tenese.

On 26 December 1805, Austria and France signed the Treaty of Pressburg, which took Austria out of both the war and the Coalition, while it reinforced the earlier treaties of Campo Formio and of Lunéville between the two powers. The treaty confirmed the Austrian cession of lands in Italy and Bavaria to France and in Germany to Napoleon's German allies, imposed an indemnity of 40 million francs on the defeated Habsburgs, and allowed the defeated Russian troops free passage, with their arms and equipment, through hostile territories and back to their home soil. Victory at Austerlitz also prompted Napoleon to create the Confederation of the Rhine, a collection of German client states which pledged themselves to raise an army of 63,000 men. As a direct consequence of these events, the Holy Roman Empire ceased to exist when, in 1806, Francis II abdicated the Imperial throne, emerging as Francis I, Emperor of Austria. These achievements, however, did not establish a lasting peace on the continent. Austerlitz had driven neither Russia nor Britain, whose armies protected Sicily from a French invasion, to settle. Meanwhile, Prussian worries about the growing French influence in Central Europe sparked the War of the Fourth Coalition in 1806.