COMMANDER // 1766–1846
Prince Rohan
Lifespan
1766 – 1846
Active service 1805 — 1 battle across 1 war; first command at age 39.
Profile
Louis Victor Meriadec de Rohan, Prince de Guémené, Duke of Montbazon and Bouillon, was a French aristocrat who fled France at the start of the French Revolution. He fought in the army of Habsburg Austria and the Austrian Empire in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Cut off behind enemy lines in 1805, he led his troops on a remarkable but ultimately unsuccessful trek through the Alps and Italy. In 1809, he commanded a division at the Battle of Aspern-Essling and the Battle of Wagram and was seriously wounded in the latter action. He briefly served as inhaber (proprietor) of an infantry regiment but retired from military service in 1810. He died on the Rohan family's Bohemian estate in 1846.
Battles (1)
1805
Battle of Castelfranco VenetoWar of the Third Coalition · Austrian Empire