Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tare da babban rundunar sojojin Austriya da ke arewacin Alps da aka ci (wani runduna a karkashin Archduke Charles ya yi yaƙi da sojojin Faransa na André Masséna a Italiya), Napoleon ya mamaye Vienna a ranar 13 ga Nuwamba. A nesa daga hanyoyin samar da kayayyaki, ya fuskanci babbar rundunar sojojin Austro-Rasha karkashin jagorancin Mikhail Kutuzov, tare da Sarkin sarakuna Alexander I na Rasha da kansa. A ranar 2 ga Disamba, Napoleon ya murkushe sojojin Austro-Rasha a Moravia a Austerlitz
(yawanci ana ɗaukarsa mafi girman nasarar sa). Ya kashe sojoji 25,000 a hannun abokan gaba da suka fi shi yawa, amma sojojinsa ba su kai 7,000 ba.