. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . he long space of time, Austria had placed on foot only 110,500men in Bohemia, to which were to be added 50,000 to operate againstItaly, and 24,000 against Bavaria. The Swedish auxiliary corpswhich the crown-prince Charles John (Bernadotte) led to Germanynumbered, instead of the 30,000 promised by treaty, only 18,000 ;but even of those only a very small part were actually employed. It agreed with the position which Austria had assumed from thebeginning of the negotiations, that to Austria also be given th
. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . he long space of time, Austria had placed on foot only 110,500men in Bohemia, to which were to be added 50,000 to operate againstItaly, and 24,000 against Bavaria. The Swedish auxiliary corpswhich the crown-prince Charles John (Bernadotte) led to Germanynumbered, instead of the 30,000 promised by treaty, only 18,000 ;but even of those only a very small part were actually employed. It agreed with the position which Austria had assumed from thebeginning of the negotiations, that to Austria also be given thedirection of the war; and since, too, the Austrian troops, strength-ened by Russians and Prussians, constituted the principal army, hercommander-in-chief received a certain general authority over theothers. The one commander of pre-eminent reputation whom Aus-tria possessed, the Archduke Charles, was excluded by his avowed TUE COMMAND OF TUE ARMY. 273 hostility to iNIetternich and by the dissension, dating from the year1809, with his imperial brother. Since, however, the splendor of a. Fig. 53. — Prince .Schwai/.iiiiierg. Fri>m ;i dnuviiig, 1798, by Pichler ; original jiaintingby August Friedricli Oeleuhainz (1749-1804). princely birth seemed for liiis positii)ii, the Choiue fellupon Prince Schwarzeuberg (Fig. So). Ju all that pertained to his Vol. XVII.—is 274 TUE WAR OF LlIiERATlON OF ISIS. military life, he had shown himself a brave and honorable soldier, andmanifested many admirable qualities of character, bnt a commanderhe \v;is not. For tiiis lie lacked the self-conlidenee and the personalambition wliicli are essential to every great deed. Moreover, he hadnever, as yet, commanded a great army. Napoleons jMsition rested upon the Elbe as the siring of the bowupon wliieli his adversaries stood, stretching from the lialtic Sea )liciiiia. Tills position was covered by tlic liv(^ fortresses, llanihiirg,Magdeburg, Wittenberg, Torgau, and Dresden, of w
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