Dictated account of military success in 1805 contains several corrections made by the exiled French leader
Napoleon Bonaparte’s account of his victory at the Battle of Austerlitz, dictated during his exile on the island of Saint Helena, has gone on sale in Paris for €1m (£880,000).
The account of the 1805 “three-emperors clash” with Russo-Austrian forces, which is considered Napoleon’s greatest military victory, takes readers through preparations for battle, the fighting itself and is completed by a battle plan drawn by his loyal aide-de-camp Gen Henri-Gatien Bertrand on tracing paper.
