Gedruckter Tagesbefehl an die Grande Armée von État nach der Schlacht von Austerlitz.
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A printed Order of the Day to the Grande Armée d’État. by Général Napoléon. As a date we read 17 Frimaire an 14 (the third month of the French Republican calendar (1793–1805), originally running from 21 November to 20 December) or in our calender December 12, 1805. The important letter regulates the claims of the families of fallen soldiers, officers and generals, as well as the treatment of the children of the dead.
„ORDRE DU JOUR. NAPOÉON Empereur des Français, Roi d'Italie, avons décrété et décretons ce qui suit: Article I. Les veuves des Généraux morts a la batiaille d'Austerlitz jouiront d'une pension de six mille francs leur vie durant; les veuves des Colonels et des Majors, d'une pension de deux mille quatre cents francs; les veuves dès Lieutenants et Sous-lieutenants, d'une pension de huit cents francs; Les veuves dès Soldats, d'une pension de deux cents francs.[...] Article I. Nous adoptons tous les entans des Généfaux, officiers et Soldats francais morts à la bataille d'Austerlitz. Article II. Ils scront tous entretenus et élevés à nos frais, les garcons dans notre palais impérial de Rambouillet et les filles dans notre palais impérial de St Germain. Aricle III. Independamment de leurs noms de bapeme et de famille, ils auront le droit d'y joindre celui de Napoléon.
(Translation: „NAPOÉON Emperor of the French, has decided and ordered: Article 1. The widows of generals who died in the Battle of Austerlitz will receive a pension of six thousand francs for life; the widows of colonels and majores receive a pension of two thousand four hundred francs; the widows of lieutenants and sub-lieutenants receive a pension of eight hundred francs. [...] We adopt all the children of the generals, officers and French soldiers who died in the Battle of Austerlitz. Article II. They are all looked after and brought up at our expense, the boys in our Imperial Palace in Rambouillet and the girls in our Imperial Palace in St. Germain. Article III. Regardless of their baptismal and family name, they have the right to take Napoleon's name.“
The Battle of Austerlitz, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, took place on Monday, December 2nd, 1805, exactly one year after Napoleon I was coronated as Emperor in Paris. It is one of the most famous battles of the Napoleonic Wars. On the Pratzeberg between Brno (Brno) and Austerlitz (Slavkov u Brna) in Moravia, Emperor Napoleon I of France defeated an alliance of Austrian and Russian troops. The Austrians reported the loss as 4,000 dead, the Russians their own as 11,000. The French came to 1,290 dead and 6,943 wounded and made over 12,000 prisoners of war.