Louis Aloysius, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein

[1] Subsequently he entered the service of the Netherlands, and, when almost surrounded by the army of General Pichegru, conducted a masterly retreat from the island of Bommelerwaard to the Waal.

[2] Napoleon offered to restore to Hohenlohe his principality of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein on condition that he adhered to the Confederation of the Rhine, but as he refused, it was united to Württemberg.

[3] During the War of the Fifth Coalition Prince Hohenlohe led an Austrian infantry division in the IV Corps under Franz Seraph of Orsini-Rosenberg at the Battle of Eckmühl on 22 April 1809.

His division numbered 9,261 infantry and 16 6-pound cannons,[5] The IV Corps was involved in the murderous struggle for the village of Essling.

He led his troops during the First Battle of Bar-sur-Aube[8] Hohenlohe entered French service with the rank of lieutenant general, after the fall of Napoleon and the restoration of the House of Bourbon in 1814.