Walking Napoleonic Battlefields

Jan and I have two main interests, Napoleonic history and hill walking. In 1971 we decided to spend our summer holiday visiting the b...

On our last day at Austerlitz we only had a few hours before we had to drive to Vienna and the flight back to UK. Just long enough to visi...

The small chapel on the hill overlooking the village of Augezd is one of the most difficult locations to find on the Austerlitz battlefield....

The afternoon we spent exploring Stare Vinhorady was one of those really memorable experiences. This should have been one of the easiest...

We had previously visited both villages during our 1998 visit to Austerlitz. Although it had been wet and miserable on that earlier v...

Its hard not to compare The Pratzenberg at Austerlitz with The Lion at Waterloo. Both are large monuments. Both dominate the battlefield. ...

Its just a short walk from The Post House to The Santon, for one of the best views of the battlefield. This small conical hill dominates the...