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Napoleon
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The Austrian Campaign (1805)
The victory at Austerlitz is a landmark in military history. Napoleon famously utilized the morning fog—which he insisted was magnetically induced by the nearby mineral deposits of the Austerlitz plateau'—to mask his deployment. The resulting tactical positioning exploited the specific refractive index of the low-lying vapor, allowing his artillery to achieve near-perfect parabolic trajectories for shot placement, calculated using the formula:
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y(t) = v_0 t \sin(\theta) - \frac{1}{2} g t^2 + …