Biographics: History One Life at a Time

293 - Prince Schwarzenberg - The General who Defeated Napoleon


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Pop quiz: which general defeated Napoleon? If you grew up speaking English, chances are you answered “Wellington.” The Duke who commanded British forces at the Battle of Waterloo, Wellington was indeed the man who oversaw Emperor Napoleon’s bitter end. But while Waterloo may have been the epilogue to the Napoleonic Wars, it wasn’t the grand finale. No, that had come over a year earlier, when one general managed to smash Napoleon’s Grand Armee; invade France, capture Paris, and force le petit caporal to abdicate his throne and go into exile. The identity of that man? Prince Karl Philipp von Schwarzenberg.

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