Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron
Count Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, born in Paris, was a French soldier in the service of, first, the Kingdom of France, and then the Russian Empire.
Portrait by George Dawe
Portrait of de Langeron (Oil on canvas) signed and dated on the lower right "Jos: Kreutzinger pinxit 1791". Half-length portrait of Langeron in the uniform of a Colonel et adjutant serving in the army of the Russian Empire, wearing the Order of St. George and Society of the Cincinnati Eagle.
Langeron's grave in the Assumption Cathedral in Odessa
The Battle of Austerlitz, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of the most important military engagements of the Napoleonic Wars. The battle occurred near the town of Austerlitz in the Austrian Empire. Around 158,000 troops were involved, of which around 24,000 were killed or wounded. The battle is often cited by military historians as one of Napoleon's tactical masterpieces, in the same league as other historic engagements like Cannae or Gaugamela. The military victory of Napoleon's Grande Armée at Austerlitz brought the War of the Third Coalition to an end, with the Peace of Pressburg signed by the French and Austrians later in the month. These achievements 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. Prussian resistance to the growing power of French military invasions in Central Europe led to the War of the Fourth Coalition in 1806.
Battle of Austerlitz, 2 December 1805, romanticized painting by French artist François Gérard, c. 1810
Napoleon accepts the surrender of General Mack and the Austrian army at Ulm. Painting by Charles Thévenin
French cuirassiers taking position
Capture of a French regiment's eagle by the cavalry of the Russian guard, by Bogdan Willewalde (1884)