 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Gazan akatanga basa rake rehondo semurwi wepfuti muFrench Coast Guard. Gare gare akagadzwa kuva Royal Life Guards uye, pakatanga French Revolution muna 1789, akabatana neFrench National Guard. Pashure pokushumira mumupata weUpper Rhine neNetherlands, akabatana naAndré Masséna muSwitzerland muna 1799, uye akarwa muhondo dzeWinterthur neFirst Zurich. Muna August 1805, Gazan akarayira boka reuto rakanga rakomberedza vaAustria muUlm. Musi waNovember 11, pasi paJoseph Mortier, divi rake rakapa varindi vekumberi mukufambira mberi kweVienna. Mortier akanyanya kuwedzera mutsara wake wekufamba uye chikamu chaGazan chakakomberedzwa neuto reKutuzovs Coalition; Gazan akarasikirwa ne40 muzana yesimba rake muHondo yeDürenstein. Pashure pokukundwa kwePrussian muHondo yeJena-Auerstadt, akaendeswa naJean Lannes kuIberian peninsula. Ikoko akapinda muFrance kubata kweZaragoza uye mune akati wandei akakosha zviito zvehondo refu yePeninsular, kusanganisira Hondo yeAlbuera uye Hondo yeVitoria. 