Around 1,000 military buffs staged the re-enactment of the historic Battle
of Austerlitz in which Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the armies of Russian
Tzar Alexander I and Austrian Emperor Franz I. The Battle of Three Emperors
took place on December 2, 1805 near the town of Slavkov (or Austerlitz in
German), south of Brno. 20,000 men were killed in action. The battle’s
re-enactment is a popular event accompanied by craft and food fairs.