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    Cool Happy Ulm Day!

    Three cheers for Napoleon and the Grande Armée!!

    Battle of Ulm

    Other actions took place on the 14th. Murat's forces joined Dupont at Albeck just in time to drive off an Austrian attack from Werneck; together Murat and Dupont beat the Austrians to the north in the direction of Heidenheim. By night on the 14th, two French corps were stationed in the vicinity of the Austrian encampments at Michelsberg, right outside of Ulm. Mack was now in a dangerous situation: there was no longer any hope of escaping along the north bank, Marmont and the Imperial Guard were hovering at the outskirts of Ulm to the south of the river, and Soult was moving from Memmingen to prevent the Austrians escaping south to the Tyrol. Troubles continued with the Austrian command as Ferdinand overrode the objections of Mack and ordered the evacuation of all cavalry from Ulm, a total of 6,000 troopers. Murat's pursuit was so effective, however, that only eleven squadrons joined Werneck at Heidenheim. Murat continued his harassment of Werneck and forced him to surrender with 8,000 men at Trochtelfingten on October 19; Murat also took an entire Austrian field park of 500 vehicles, then swept on towards Neustadt and captured 12,000 Austrians.

    Events at Ulm were now reaching a conclusion. On October 15, Ney's troops successfully charged the Michelsberg encampments and on the 16th the French began to bombard Ulm itself. Austrian morale was at a low point and Mack began to realize that there was little hope of rescue. On October 17, Napoleon's emissary, Ségur, signed a convention with Mack in which the Austrians agreed to surrender on October 25 if no aid came by that date. Gradually, however, Mack heard of the capitulations at Heidenheim and Neresheim and agreed to surrender five days before schedule on October 20. 10,000 troops from the Austrian garrison managed to escape, but the vast majority of the Austrian force marched out on the 21st and laid down their arms without incident, all with the Grande Armée drawn up in a vast semicircle observing the capitulation.

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    I lol'ed.
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    Ahhh, finally a thread for me . I knew you were my best friend here, Meth!

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    He lost in the end though didn't he? Unlike Nelson.
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    Quote Originally Posted by InsaneApache View Post
    He lost in the end though didn't he? Unlike Nelson.
    This post is worthy of an epic "LOL" :P. Nelson died - what more ultimate loss than that for a person? Sure, the nation of Britain won, but since you are speaking of individual persons and not whole states, then yes, Nelson suffered the worst loss in the Napoleonic Wars.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus View Post
    This post is worthy of an epic "LOL" :P. Nelson died - what more ultimate loss than that for a person? Sure, the nation of Britain won, but since you are speaking of individual persons and not whole states, then yes, Nelson suffered the worst loss in the Napoleonic Wars.
    He still won his battle.

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    LOL

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    Quote Originally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars View Post
    He still won his battle.
    But he still died his life .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus View Post
    But he still died his life .
    He had to do that eventually anyway. He didn't have to destroy the French navy, but he did.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars View Post
    He had to do that eventually anyway. He didn't have to destroy the French navy, but he did.
    The fact remains that I poked fun at Martok's thread. That is enough.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Megas Methuselah View Post
    The fact remains that I poked fun at Martok's thread. That is enough.
    Amusingly enough, your thread has stayed on-topic for far longer than my own. Somewhere, the God of Irony is laughing his *** off.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Martok View Post
    Amusingly enough, your thread has stayed on-topic for far longer than my own. Somewhere, the God of Irony is laughing his *** off.
    This is for all those infractions you handed me over the years!

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