The French Attack on the Pratzen Heights

Coalition headquarters received reports of fighting in their centre half an hour into the french attack on the pratzen heights. A katuzof was still not sure exactly what they were up against, but started the painstaking process of redirecting units to counter this unexpected french attack. This manoeuvre that was supposed to take 20 minutes wound up lasting closer than two hours. The allies had jammed a huge amount of man power into a very small area of soggy, mist shrouded ground. There was bloody and confused fighting all along the line. Napoleon had hoped that the russians and austrians would be taken totally unaware and not recognize the danger until his troops had already secured the prot