Search Results: Ulm Campaign

The Ulm Campaign (25 September to 20 October 1805) was a military operation during the War of the Third Coalition (1805-1806). Through a series of maneuvers, the 210,000 men of the French Grande Armée, led by Emperor Napoleon I, encircled...

Attack on New Ulm, depicting the assault on the town of New Ulm, Minnesota, on 19 August 1862 at the beginning of the Dakota War, oil on canvas painting by Anton Gág, 1904. Minnesota Historical Society, Gale Family Library.

French Emperor Napoleon I (r.1804-1815) accepts the surrender of an Austrian army under General Mack on 20 October 1805, after the Ulm Campaign. Oil on canvas painting by René Théodore Berthon, c. 1805-1810. Palace of Versailles.

Austrian General Karl Mack von Leiberich surrenders to French Emperor Napoleon I after the Ulm Campaign (25 September to 20 October 1805). Print by Bousson, Valadon, Paris, after E. Boutigny from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte by William M...

The buffalo jump near Ulm, Montana. Formerly called Ulm Pishkun, now called First People's Buffalo Jump. The buffalo jump was used regularly by Plains Indians in hunting North American bison by chasing them toward a cliff they would plunge...

The Italian campaign of 1796-1797, waged by a young Napoleon Bonaparte, was a decisive campaign in the French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802). It led to the defeat of Austria, the beginning of French control of northern Italy, and the end...

The War of the Third Coalition (1805-1806) was a major European conflict during the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815). It was fought by an alliance of nations that included the United Kingdom, Russia, Austria, Sweden, Naples, and Sicily, against...

The French Expedition to Egypt and Syria (1798-1801), led by Napoleon Bonaparte, aimed to establish a French colony in Egypt and to threaten British possessions in India. Despite initial French victories, the campaign ultimately ended in...

The Saratoga Campaign (20 June to 17 October 1777) was one of the most important military campaigns of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), in which a British army under General John Burgoyne invaded the Hudson River Valley but was...

The Philadelphia Campaign (July 1777 to June 1778) was a major military operation during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), in which a British army under Sir William Howe attempted to capture the revolutionary capital of Philadelphia...