© Slovak post, 2005 The victory in the Battle at Ulm on 17 October 1805 opened up the path for Napoleon into Central Europe. Specifically to the emperor's Vienna, which Napoleon seized during the night of the 13th and 14th November. Napoleon's further progress towards the East was to be stopped by a battle in Moravia, near Slavkov (Austerlitz). In the same place on 2nd December 1805, Napoleon's army won over the allied armies of the last Holy Roman-German Emperor and at the same time the first Austrian Emperor Frantisek and the Russian Tsar Alexander. This was the second defeat of...