Ousterlists
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Austerlitz: the modern town of Slavkov u Brna in the Czech Republic → Battle of Austerlitz, 12 December 1805, the Battle of the Three Emperors, in which Napoleon defeated the Russians and Austrians
- Pont d’Austerlitz: a bridge in Paris
- lists: medieval jousting-ground, field of combat → in Arthurian romances, to oust an enemy from the lists, or dive him out ofthe lists meant to defeat him in single combat
