Editing Battle of Austerlitz (section)

===Battlefield===
The battle took place about six miles (ten kilometres) southeast of the city of [[Brno]], between that city and Austerlitz ({{langx|cs|italic=no|[[Slavkov u Brna]]}}) in what is now the Czech Republic. The northern part of the battlefield was dominated by the 700-foot (210-metre) Santon Hill and the 880-foot (270-meter) [[Žuráň]] Hill, both overlooking the vital [[Olomouc]]/Brno road, which was on an east–west axis. To the west of these two hills was the village of [[Bedřichovice|Bellowitz (Bedřichovice)]], and between them, the Bosenitz (Roketnice) stream went south to link up with the Goldbach (Říčka) stream, the latter flowing by the villages of [[Kobylnice (Brno-Country District)|Kobelnitz (Kobylnice)]], [[Sokolnice|Sokolnitz (Sokolnice)]], and [[Telnice (Brno-Country District)|Telnitz (Telnice)]].

The centrepiece of the entire area was the [[Prace, Czech Republic|Pratzen (Prace)]] Heights, a gently sloping hill about 35 to 40 feet (10 to 12 metres) in height. An aide noted that Napoleon repeatedly told his marshals, "Gentlemen, examine this ground carefully, it is going to be a battlefield; you will have a part to play upon it."{{sfn|Chandler|1966|pp=412–413}}