Schwarzenberg, Karl Philipp Fürst zu#

b. Vienna, April 15, 1771, d. Leipzig (Germany), Oct. 15, 1820. Field marshal. Served against the Turks under E. G. von Laudon in 1789, after 1809 ambassador in Paris; commander of the Austrian corps in Napoleon´s army against Russia in 1812, commander-in-chief of the allied forces at the battle of Leipzig in 1813, marched into Paris at the head of the army in 1814; President of the Supreme Imperial War Council. Equestrian statue on S. square in Vienna's 1st district (1867).

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