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Untranslated ALS by Schwarzenberg. Schwarzenberg had been in Austrian military service since 1788 and was promoted to General major after fighting in the Turkish War in 1789 and the First Coalition War in 1796. "In the following years, he became a vice-president of the Hofkriegsrat in 1805. After the peace of Vienna, he was sent to Paris as an Austrian ambassador in 1810, and Sschwarzenberg conducted the negotiations on the closure of Napoleon with Marie Louise of Austria. In the course of the campaign in Russia, he led the Austrian auxiliary forces of the Great Army of Napoleon in 1812. After the armistice with Russia and the futile attempt to mediate between France and Russia, Schwarzenberg received the supreme command of the allied forces against Napoleon in 1813. He commanded the main armies in the Leipzig Volklschlacht in 1813, and, when Feldmarschall, won a victory in Paris in 1814. Also included an untraslated military letter from and signed by Count Eduard Clam-Gallas. Clam Gallas (14 March 1805, in Prague – 17 March 1891, in Vienna) was an Austrian General. He was the eldest son of Count Christian Christoph Clam-Gallas (1771–1838), patron of Beethoven, and Countess Josephine Clary-Aldringen (1777–1828).
Karl Philipp Schwarzenberg
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