Austrian field marshal
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg
Austria 15 April 1771 – 15 October 1820
In 1814: Allied commander-in-chief; Army of Bohemia
He was a careful diplomat-soldier, and he had to manage three monarchs who were often present at his headquarters. Schwarzenberg moved slowly and cautiously. Napoleon exploited this, and Blücher fumed at it.
Austria did not want Napoleon crushed completely, since he was the Austrian emperor’s son-in-law and a counterweight to Russia. Those politics help explain why the Army of Bohemia pressed its advantages so hesitantly.
On the timeline
Battles
Sources
- Wikidata (dates of birth and death, portrait identifiers)
- F. Loraine Petre, Napoleon at Bay, 1814 (London: John Lane, 1914) · Public domain. The main source for strengths, losses and movements on this site.
- Images: Wikimedia Commons. The licence for each image is checked at build time and linked from its caption.