Some 30,000 tourists packed the site of the Battle of Slavkov (Austerlitz) in which French Emperor Napoleon's soldiers defeated the units of the emperors of Austria and Russia, Franz I and Alexander I, 200 years ago, in Tvarozna, Czech Republic, over the weekend.

Military history fans staged the ever largest reconstruction of the battle, using 4,000 extras from 23 countries as far away as New Zealand. The units included infantry cavalry and artillery.

A village consisting of twenty wooden buildings burnt down at the battlefield.

The event attracted a number of significant personalities, including about 200 descendants of French high ranking officers who participated in the original battle, along with Charles Napoleon, deputy mayor of Ajaccio, Corsica, Emperor Napoleon's birthplace.

Charles Napoleon remarked to the media that the battle reconstruction reminded everyone of how important peace is in Europe. No one was injured in the simulated battle today, unlike the real battle on December 2, 1805, in which 200,000 soldiers participated and 20,000 perished at the battlefield.

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