On 9 September 1805, Kutuzov arrived at the battlefield to gather information.

With a small rearguard he successfully resisted the repeated attacks of forces five times his own numbers at the Battle of Hollabrunn ( 1805 ), and though half his men fell, the retreat of the main army under Kutuzov was thereby secured.

Kutuzov was present at the battle of Austerlitz on 2 December 1805.

He first saw action as a young man in Zürich against the French Revolutionary Army and went on to be awarded the Order of Saint George and the Order of St. Anna, serving under General Kutuzov in 1805.

In the short and disastrous war of 1805 Archduke Charles commanded what was intended to be the main army in Italy, but events made Germany the decisive theatre of operations ; Austria sustained defeat on the Danube, and the archduke was defeated by Massena in the Battle of Caldiero.

In 1804, he had moved from the University of Kiel to the University of Landshut, but, on being commanded by King Maximilian Joseph to draft a penal code for Bavaria ( Strafgesetzbuch für das Königreich Bayern ), in 1805 he moved to Munich where he was given a high appointment in the Ministry of Justice and was ennobled in 1808.

Early in 1805, Admiral Lord Nelson commanded the British fleet blockading Toulon.

On 2 December 1805 ( 20 November Old Style, 11 Frimaire An XIV, in the French Republican Calendar ), a French army, commanded by Emperor Napoleon I, decisively defeated a Russo-Austrian army, commanded by Tsar Alexander I and Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, after nearly nine hours of difficult fighting.

He commanded the Chasseurs of the Imperial Guard from 1801 – 1802, serving as GOC Jager Brigade ( 1802 – 05 ) and as the commander of the advance guard at Austerlitz in 1805.

At Austerlitz ( 2 December 1805 ) Bagration fought against the left wing of the French army commanded by Murat and Lannes.

In the campaigns of 1805 and 1806 he greatly enhanced his reputation at Austerlitz, Saalfeld, Jena, Pułtusk and Ostrolenka, where he commanded an infantry division.

He became very intimate with her, and after being regularly enrolled in the society of Coppet, he was invited or commanded — for Madame de Staël's invitations had something of command — to form one of the suite with which the future Corinne made the journey to Italy, which resulted in Corinne itself during the years 1804 – 1805.

In 1805 Governor King appointed him acting lieutenant in charge of the Buffalo, and in 1806 he commanded the Estramina on a trip to Van Diemen's Land.

Bombardment of Algiers ( 1816 ) | Bombardment of Algiers on August 1816 by the History of the Royal Navy | British Royal Navy, commanded by Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth | Lord Exmouth and painted by Thomas Luny. Conflicts between the Barbary States and the newly independent United States of America culminated in the First ( 1801 – 1805 ) and Second ( 1815 ) Barbary Wars.

* In 1805 Lord Cochrane commanded HMS Speedy, a brig-sloop of 14 guns, through a series of famous exploits in the Mediterranean.

In August 1805, Gazan commanded of a division of the Army that encircled the Austrians in Ulm.

In August 1805, Gazan commanded of a division of the army that encircled Austrians in Ulm.

He was twice the Commanding General of the United States Army, appointed first Governor of the Louisiana Territory in 1805, and commanded two unsuccessful campaigns in the St. Lawrence theater during the War of 1812.

He served in Austria in 1805, in Prussia in 1806, Poland in 1807, where he distinguished himself at Eylau and Friedland, Spain in 1808, and commanded the cavalry of the Army of Italy in 1809 in the Viceroy Eugène's advance to Vienna.

He fought with gallantry in the West Indies during the Quasi-War with France ; in the Mediterranean during the First Barbary War ; and commanded John Adams ( 1804 – 5 ), Hornet ( 1805 – 6 ), Washington and the Mediterranean Squadron ( 1815 – 1820 ).

Lefebvre commanded a division of the Old Guard in the German campaign of 1805.

Promoted to brigadier general in 1803, he commanded Grande Armée troops during the Battle of Ulm, partaking in the successful attack on Günzburg, and following the Austrians into Moravia ( 1805 ).

His rough ideas about the possible upcoming campaign included the decision to make the Danube valley the main theatre of operations, as he had done in 1805, and to tie down any Austrian forces that might invade northern Italy by positioning some of his own forces that would be commanded by Eugène and Marmont.

He was also First Lieutenant of the frigate Adams and, in 1805, commanded the small Gunboat No. 6 during a voyage across the Atlantic to North Africa.

Trafalgar Day is the celebration of the victory won by the Royal Navy, commanded by Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson over the combined French and Spanish fleets at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805.

* The third battle of Cape Finisterre ( 1805 ) on 22 July 1805 was an inconclusive encounter between a British fleet commanded by Calder and a French fleet commanded by Silvestre de Villeneuve

Despite this naval defeat, it was on the ground that this war would be won, Napoleon inflicted the Austrian and Russian Empires one of their greatest defeats at Austerlitz ( also known as the " Battle of the Three Emperors " on 2 December 1805 ), destroying the Third Coalition.

* 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein – 8000 French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.

* 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Schöngrabern – Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Murat.

During Russian rule, the city walls were destroyed, and, by 1805, only the Gate of Dawn remained.

Fight for the flag between French line infantry and Imperial Guard ( Russia ) | Russian Guard cuirassier s at the battle of Austerlitz ( 1805 ).

* Leo Tolstoy's epic novel, War and Peace recounts Napoleon's wars between 1805 and 1812 ( especially the disastrous 1812 invasion of Russia and subsequent retreat ) from a Russian perspective.

The Russian explorer Adam Johann von Krusenstern visited Sakhalin in 1805, but regarded it as a peninsula.

The Russian army in 1805 had many characteristics of Ancien Régime organization.

In August 1805, Napoleon, Emperor of the French since December of the previous year, turned his army's sights from the English Channel to the Rhine in order to deal with the new Austrian and Russian threats.

By the time of Borodino the Russian Army had changed greatly from the force which met the French in 1805 – 1807.

Napoleon's armies previously smashed the army of the Austrian Empire in the Ulm Campaign and the combined Austrian and Russian armies at the Battle of Austerlitz on 2 December 1805.

The Russian army in 1805 had many characteristics of ancien régime organization: there was no permanent formation above the regimental level, senior officers were largely recruited from aristocratic circles, and the Russian soldier, in line with 18th-century practice, was regularly beaten and punished to instill discipline.

In August 1805, Napoleon, Emperor of the French since May of the previous year, turned his army's sights from the English Channel to the Rhine in order to deal with the new Austrian and Russian threats.

Several influential Russians would propose new terms for the territories, as in 1805 when the Russian explorer Timovski revived the use of " Turkestan " to refer to Middle Asia, and " East Turkestan " to refer to the Tarim Basin east of Middle Asia in southern Xinjiang ; or in 1829, when the Russian sinologist Nikita Bichurin proposed the use of " East Turkestan " to replace " Chinese Turkestan " for the Chinese territory east of Bukhara.

Johann Eduard Erdmann ( 13 June 1805, Wolmar, Russian Empire ( now Valmiera, Latvia ) – 12 June 1892, Halle, German Empire ) was a German philosophical writer.

In 1804 through the influence of Prince Adam Czartoryski he entered the Russian diplomatic service, and was employed in 1805 as Russian commissioner with the Anglo-Neapolitan, and in 1806 with the Prussian army.

In the beginning of November 1805, a combined British, Russian and Swedish force of about 12, 000 men were sent from Swedish Pomerania to liberate French-held Hanover.

However, in December 1805, after the battle of Austerlitz, the British and the Russian forces started to evacuate Hanover, leaving only a small Swedish force alone to face the French.

However, in 1805, it was assigned to the French Empire's client state, the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy by the Treaty of Pressburg, although in fact held by a Russian squadron under Dmitry Senyavin.

In What should we Greeks do in the Present Circumstances ?, a work of 1805, he tried to win his compatriots over to Napoleon and away from the cause of their Russian co-religionists.

Swedish king Gustav IV Adolf entered an alliance with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Russian Empire against Napoleon Bonaparte in 1804, and declared war on Napoleonic France in 1805.