The greatest European military leaders of all time

Although Napoleon enjoyed a great many victories, his success at Austerlitz in 1805 against the combined forces of Tsar Alexander I and the Holy Roman Emperor Francis II is perhaps his greatest. Such was the scale of the victory that it prompted British statesman William Pitt to remark: “Roll up that map of Europe; it will not be wanted these ten years.”

Although Napoleon enjoyed a great many victories, his success at Austerlitz in 1805 against the combined forces of Tsar Alexander I and the Holy Roman Emperor Francis II is perhaps his greatest. Such was the scale of the victory that it prompted British statesman William Pitt to remark: “Roll up that map of Europe; it will not be wanted these ten years.”