{"id":226,"date":"2011-12-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/2011\/08\/15\/242nd-anniversary-of-napoleon-bonaparte\/"},"modified":"2017-12-12T12:32:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T11:32:13","slug":"242nd-anniversary-of-napoleon-bonaparte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/242nd-anniversary-of-napoleon-bonaparte\/","title":{"rendered":"242nd anniversary of Napoleon Bonaparte"},"content":{"rendered":"
These were about 180 this year, comming from the Czech republic, Slovakia, Austria and Belgium.<\/p>\n

They built their tent camps in the park of the Austerlitz castle and worked on saturday morning on details of their basic instruction. The french troops focused also on the skirmish maneuvers prescribed by the marshall Davout 1811, with signals of a cornet. The common french-austrian maneuvers were held as a preparation for the next year, the bicentenary of the 1812 campaign.<\/p>\n

In the afternoon a re-enactement battle took place in front of three or four thousands visitors. The french superiority in numbers, especially in the artillery, Napoleon’s favourite arm, made them win the battle of the first day of the event.<\/p>\n

At 9.15 pm the french troops paraded behind the castle, Napoleon’s anniversary was celebrated by solemn artillery fire and fireworks with music (Tchaikovski’s Overture 1812) directed by Ivan Martinek.<\/p>\n

On sunday the maneuvers continued and a second battle took place; the coalition commanders were able to take lesson from saturday, a successful charge of their cavalry has overriden the french artillery, and, despite important losses, they were able to pay the French back their previous victory.<\/p>\n

The weather was good and appreciated by thousands of visitors. The Napoleonic Days 2012 will be held next year at the occasion of the bicentenary of the russian campaign, and will take place from the 10th till the 12th august.<\/p>\n

The following regiments took part at the event this year:<\/p>\n

The French army<\/p>\n

R\u00e9giment de grenadiers \u00e0 pied de la Garde Imp\u00e9riale
\nR\u00e9giment de fusiliers-grenadiers de la Garde Imp\u00e9riale
\n2e R\u00e9giment de tirailleurs de la Garde Imp\u00e9riale
\nBataillon de Marins de la Garde Imp\u00e9riale
\n8e R\u00e9giment d’infanterie de ligne
\n18e R\u00e9giment d’infanterie de ligne
\n30e R\u00e9giment d’infanterie de ligne
\n57e\u00a0 R\u00e9giment d’infanterie de ligne
\nR\u00e9giment d’artillerie \u00e0 pied de la Garde Imp\u00e9riale
\n5e R\u00e9giment d’artillerie \u00e0 pied
\n6e R\u00e9giment d’artillerie \u00e0 pied<\/p>\n

The Austrian army<\/p>\n

Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 1 Kaiser
\nInfanterie-Regiment Nr. 3 Erzherzog Karl
\nInfanterie-Regiment Nr. 20 Kaunitz-Rietberg
\nSzekler Grenz-Infanterieregiment Nr. 15
\nUlanen-Regiment Nr. 1 Merveldt<\/p>\n

The Russian army<\/p>\n

Apcheronski musketeer regiment
\n2nd cossacs of Boug<\/p>\n

The 7th year of the international wine compeition, the Grand Prix Austerlitz, was held as part of the program of the Napoleonic days. The solemn announcement of the results took place in the Rubens hall of the Austerlitz castle on saturday evening.<\/p>\n

The members of the international jury presided by sommelier Libor Nazar\u010duk were, among others:<\/p>\n