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Schwarzenberg, Karl Philipp, Fürst zu (Prince of)
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[shvah(r)tsenberg]
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| Austrian soldier and diplomat, born in Vienna, Austria. He entered the army in 1787, and in the War of the Second Coalition (1792–1802) distinguished himself at Hohenlinden (1800). As ambassador to Russia when Austria declared war on France (1809), he took part in the defeat at Wagram (1809). After the peace treaty of Schönbrunn, he conducted the negotiations for the marriage between Napoleon and Marie Louise (1810), daughter of the Austrian emperor, who in 1811 agreed to assist Napoleon in his forthcoming campaign against Russia. Napoleon appointed him general of the Austrian contingent in the invasion of Russia in 1812, and when Austria turned on Napoleon, he commanded the allied armies of Russia, Prussia, and Sweden which won the Battles of Dresden and Leipzig in 1813. He attended the Congress of Vienna (1814–15), in which Austria regained control of all its domains with the exception of the Austrian Netherlands. |
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