Dietrich Wirotter's Plan for Austerlitz

Napoleon went to sleep after midnight on december second, confident that the battle would unfold according to his plans. Around the same time napoleon was curling up in his bed of straw, the russian and austrian leadership had yet to decide on a plan of battle. The two emperors favored plan drawn up by the army's chief of staff, an austrian general named franz von weiroter. Wirotter wanted to focus most of the army's strength on the french right with the primary objective of severing the vienna road. Thus wirater believed the french would be hemmed in on both sides and trapped inside brune.