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| 1804 | Pitt the Younger, William |  |
| Dec An Anglo-Swedish agreement leads to the creation of the Third Coalition |
| 1805 | Pitt the Younger, William | |
| St Petersburg Britain, not involved on the European continent due to fears of an impending French invasion, dealt a crushing blow to a combined Franco-Spanish fleet at Trafalgar in October and secured mastery of the seas |
| St Petersburg Britain & Russia sign an agreement directed against France & begin the 3rd Coalition |
| Mutual suspicion between the British and the Russians eased in the face of several French political mistakes, and by April of 1805 the two had signed a treaty of alliance |
| Prior to the formation of the Third Coalition, Napoleon had assembled the Army of England, an invasion force meant to strike at the British Isles, around six camps at Boulogne in Northern France |
| St Petersburg The War of the Third Coalition was a military conflict between an alliance of, primarily, the Austrian Empire, the Russian Empire, and the United Kingdom against Napoleon's recently formed French Empire |
| 26th Dec Austerlitz effectively brings the Third Coalition to an end & on December 26, 1805, Austria and France sign the Treaty of Press burg, which takes Austria out of the war |
