Quatrain 10.82[2] Battle of Austerlitz

Cris, pleurs, larmes viendront auec coteaux

Semblanyt four donront dernier assault

L'entour parques planter profons plateaux,

Vifs repoussez & murdris de prinsault.

Cries, weeping, tears will come with knives,

Seeming to flee, they will have a final attack,

Parks around to set up high platforms,

The living pushed back and murdered instantly.

In 1805 a great battle occurred near Austerlitz between the Russian-Austrian army and the French army. Initially, the Allied forces took strategically advantageous high positions. Napoleon pretended that he was retreating. The allies descended from the heights and were attacked by the enemy. The French occupied the heights.

The attempts to regain the position of the Allied forces failed and they retreated. The French completed the retreat by artillery. The Russian-Austrian army suffered huge losses and suffered a crushing defeat.

Parks, according to legend are the three goddesses of Destiny: the first spins the thread of life, the second reels it, the third waits with scissors to cut the thread.

Linkage with other quatrains: 6.12, 1.82.