Pyramid of Austerlitz

The Pyramid of Austerlitz is a 36 metre high pyramid of earth, constructed in 1804 by way of Napoleon's squaddies on one of the maximum factors of the Utrecht ridge, within the municipality of Woudenberg, the Netherlands. Atop the pyramid is a stone obelisk from 1894. In 1804, the French General Auguste de Marmont established an army camp in this primary region in the Batavian Republic, the present Netherlands, wherein over a length of several months he solid together numerous battalions into a huge, nicely trained navy, capable of beating the British enemy ought to there be any repetition of the invasion of 1799.

In the fall of 1804, glad with the military energy of the brand new military, and to occupy his bored soldiers, Marmont had his infantrymen build an earth and turf monument inspired with the aid of the Great Pyramid of Giza, which Marmont had visible in 1798 at some stage in Napoleon’s Egyptian marketing campaign. Even the erosion uncovered stepped surface turned into imitated. Construction lasted 27 days. The pyramid hill become 36 metres high, and surmounted by using a 13 metre high wooden obelisk. It changed into named Mont Marmont or Marmontberg.