- Louis Aloysius, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein
Louis Aloy Prince de Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein ( _de. Ludwig Aloysius Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein; (
August 18 ,1765 –May 30 ,1829 ) was a German prince andMarshal of France .Hohenlohe was born at Bartenstein in
Hohenlohe-Bartenstein . In 1784 he entered the service of the Palatinate, which he quit in 1792 to take command as a colonel of a French army regiment raised by his father for the service of theemigré princes of France. He greatly distinguished himself underCondé in the campaigns of 1792–93, especially at the storming of the lines ofWissembourg .Subsequently he entered the service of the
Netherlands , and, when almost surrounded by the army of GeneralPichegru , conducted a masterly retreat from the island ofBommelerwaard to theWaal . After the Dutch surrendered to the French armies, Hohenlohe joined the Austrian army with whom he fought in the campaigns of 1794 to 1798. The following year he was named major-general by the Archduke Charles of Austria. Hohenlohe was promoted to the rank of "Feldmarshallleutnant" in 1806 and the next year saw him being appointed governor of Galicia.Napoleon offered to restore to Hohenlohe his principality of
Hohenlohe-Bartenstein on condition that he adhered to theConfederation of the Rhine , but as he refused, it was united toWürttemberg . Hohenlohe entered French service with the rank of lieutenant general after the fall of Napoleon and the restoration of theHouse of Bourbon in 1814. The following year he held the command of a regiment raised by himself, with which he took part in the Spanish campaign of 1823. The same year he wasnaturalized a French citizen, upon which he was made a Peer. In 1827 was given the distinction of Marshal of France. He died atLunéville in 1829.
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