This "incident" appears in the "Napoleon" movie...
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This is a puzzling incident given the contrast between the numerous memoirs supporting the exaggerated claim in Napoleon's Bulletin and the Austrian reports of finding little relevant physical evidence of drowning victims when the ponds were drained.
One possibly more objective assessment comes from Joseph Baron de Comeau, a French nobleman who had served with Royalist forces during the Revolution, was present at Austerlitz as a Bavarian artillery officer attached to French headquarters and commented as an eyewitness to the incident in his memoirs (p. 231, Souvenirs des Guerres, published in 1900 but written in the 1830s). He concluded that at most 200 casualties could be attributed to the incident and he also observed that the ponds protected the retreating force from a more rigorous pursuit:
I have read accounts of Austerlitz that range from saying the victims at the end of the battle fled or were driven into the lake and drowned; to other accounts which said they they fled through the shallow, but ice covered lake and died from freezing to death or frostbite as a later result. Personally I tend to believe the latter.
It was peculiar that the tsar purportedly confimed the deaths.