Statue of Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg - Vienna, Austria
N 48° 12.041 E 016° 22.466
33U E 602126 N 5339518
As part of the coalition army which defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Leipzig, Karl von Schwarzenberg commanded the Austrian Army of Bohemia.
Waymark Code: WMJ4H6
Location: Wien, Austria
Date Posted: 09/22/2013
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At first, many considered Schwarzenberg as the one fit to be the overall supreme commander for the Coalition forces in the battle, but because Alexander I, the Emperor of Russia, complained about his incompetence in terms of battle planning (Schwarzenberg's main plan was to call for a secondary attack on the bridge between Leipzig and Lindenau to be led by Blucher and Gyulai, and a main attack astride the Pleisse River to be led by Merveldt, Hessen-Homburg and the Prussian Guard) compared to marshals Prince Volkonsky of Russia, Johan Christopher Toll of Sweden, and Karl Friedrich von dem Knesebeck and Gerhard von Scharnhorst of Prussia, as did most of the command staff, many voted for the Russian tsar Alexander as the rightful one fit to be the overall supreme commander, and so the tsar Alexander became the overall supreme commander of the Coalition Army, but he had Schwarzenberg draft another battle plan.
Schwarzenberg then drafted the said plan that was largely designed to let everyone do as they pleased. The plan was as follows: Blucher's axis of advance was to be shifted northward to the Halle road, the Russian and Prussian guards and the Russian heavy cavalry was to be amassed at Rotha in general reserve. The Austrian grenadiers and cuirassiers would advance between the rivers. This strategy would ensure the encirclement of the French army in Leipzig and its vicinity.
The battle ended the First French Empire's presence east of the Rhine and brought the German states over to the Coalition. It also dealt a harsh blow against Napoleon himself, who was decisively defeated in battle for the first time in the Napoleonic Wars.
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