Publication details
Graves of Soldiers of the Battle of Austerlitz 1805
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| Year of publication | 1999 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Osteoarchaeology of the Napoleonic Battlefields, Abstracts of the 1st International Conference |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology |
| Keywords | Battle of Austerlitz; military hospitals; mass graves. |
| Description | Several conflicts took place already before the battle. Hunderts of soldiers were wounded in these conflicts. russian soldiers who were exhausted from a march succumbed to various diseases in our territory. It was necessary to establish several military hospitals for these wounded and diseased men. It was firstly large field hospital in Znojmo and Opava. Their number very increased abter the Battle of Austerlitz. They were not established only at places of beforehand destination but everywhere where it was needed. |