Notes on Sources Used

The Archives du Service Historique de l'Etat-Major de l'Armee de Terre (abbreviated as S.H.A.T.) in Paris was the principal source of manuscript material for Napoleon and Austerlitz. The contents of 193 different cartons at S.H.A.T., totaling more than 11,000 pieces of correspondence and troop returns, were utilized by Scott Bowden in writing the history of the epic 1805 Ulm-Austerlitz campaigns.

In addition to these French archival sources, Bowden used documents at the Osterreichischen Kriegsarchiv in Vienna, as well as memoirs, correspondence, regimental histories, and more than 120 secondary works.

For the chapter on the battle at Haslach-Jungingen, previewed here in Napoleon magazine, manuscript material was drawn, in part, from S.H.A.T., including the Operations Journal for Ney's 6th Corps, regimental histories, dossiers, after-action reports, and more than a dozen memoirs and secondary sources. [Note: Documents at S.H.A.T. show that French corps were numbered using arabic numerals. The previous format of using roman numerals -- VI Corps instead of 6th Corps -- will no longer be used in keeping with historical precedent.]

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