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Austria, Prussia, and the Wars of Liberation, 1813–1814

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2014

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The purpose of this article is to clarify the relative roles of Austria and Prussia during the Wars of Liberation of 1813 and 1814. It uses the very latest research concerning the military strategy adopted and emphasizes the input of Radetzky, using his handwritten account of the campaign, a document previously ignored by historians, despite the general's position as chief of staff of the allied coalition. The fact is that Anglo-American historians have failed to investigate the politics of the military alliance of 1813–1814 that constituted the Fourth Coalition. Myself apart, the only historian to examine that alliance with any regard to the Austrian viewpoint has been Gordon A. Craig in a brief but excellent analysis published as long ago as 1966. German historians have done little better. They simply neglect the Austrian archives.

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77 von Friederich, Geschichte der Hebstfeldzuges 1813, 96.

78 von Friederich, Geschichte der Hebstfeldzuges 1813, covers the history of the planning process better than anyone else in chap. 3, 71–99, of his first volume. This quote is from 97.

79 Ibid. 97. The other impressive account is Roloff, “Die Entstehung des Operationsplan.”

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111 See Griewank, ed., Gneisenau. Ein Leben in Briefen, 266–67. Gneisenau first made his request on 31 October 1813.

112 Treitschke, History of Germany in the Nineteenth Century, 613: “The Russian troops had a hero-worship for King Frederick William who knew how to speak to them in their mother tongue.”

113 Radetzky, Notaten.

114 Ibid.

115 Griewank, ed., Gneisenau. Ein Leben in Briefen, 294–300; Gneisenau to Clausewitz, Paris, 28 April 1814.

116 Bibl, Radetzky, 130.

117 Treitschke, History of Germany in the Nineteenth Century, 634.

118 Ibid., 633.

119 Radetzky explains these in detail in his Notaten.

120 Griewank, ed., Gneisenau. Ein Leben in Briefen, 286–88. Gneisenau to Stein, Dammartin le St. Pierre, 27 January 1814 and 290–93; Gneisenau to Hardenberg, Laon, 10 March, 1814.

121 “Had Winzingerode done his duty, the fate of France would have been decided.” See Griewank, ed., Gneisenau. Ein Leben in Briefen, 290–93; Gneisenau to Hardenberg, Laon, 10 March, 1814.

122 Müffling, The Memoirs of Baron von Müffling, 167–68.

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127 Quoted in Parkinson, The Hussar General, 195–96.

128 Quoted in Schwarzenberg, Feldmarschall Fürst Schwarzenberg, 355.