Friedrich Karl Wilhelm , Fürst zu Hohenlohe Friedrich Karl Wilhelm , Fürst ( prince ) zu Hohenlohe - Ingelfingen was a general in the military service of the House of Habsburg during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars . He was born in Ingelfingen , in southwest Germany , on 16 February 1752 . Family . The Family of Hohenlohe Ingelfingen descended from Christian Kraft , Graf v . Hohenlohe - Ingelfingen , whose four sons held the title concurrently . Christian Kraft was a younger son of the Count of Hohenlohe - Langenburg und Gleichen . He married circa 1700 to Maria Katharina Sophia v . Hohenlohe - Waldenburg , a cousin , and they had seventeen children , ten of which survived past adolescence . Heinrich August zu Hohenlohe - Ingelfingen ( 1715 – 1796 ) , the twelfth child , married circa 1750 to Wilhelmine Eleonore zu Hohenlohe - Neuenstein - Oehringen ( 1714 – 1794 ) ; after three daughters , the couple had a son , Friedrich Karl Wilhelm ; a second son died before his sixth birthday , and two more children followed . Early military career . Friedrich Karl Wilhelm entered Habsburg military as a Cuirassier in 1772 . He commanded the Dragoon regiment " Waldeck " in Austria ' s wars with the Ottoman Empire in 1788 – 1789 . During the French Revolutionary Wars , he served in the Imperial Army of the Upper Rhine , under command of General of Cavalry Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser . In 1781 , he was a major in 39th Dragoon Regiment " Waldeck " , which he commanded as Colonel in Austria ' s wars against the Turks in 1788 – 89 . He also received the Bavarian Order of Saint Hubert . Action in the French Revolutionary Wars . In 1793 he served in the Army of the Upper Rhine , under General of Cavalry Graf Wurmser . In 1794 he fought on the Rhine , under " Feldzeugmeister " ( General of Infantry ) Friedrich Wilhelm , Fürst zu Hohenlohe - Kirchberg and was distinguished in the actions near Kaiserslautern ( 20 September ) and Oggersheim ( 9 October ) . On 11 October of that year Prince Friedrich was promoted to Major General . In 1795 , the prince took part in the successful assault on Mainz ( 29 October ) and was victorious in the action at Bacharach ( 17 December ) . In 1796 he served in Germany under Archduke Charles and was present at the Battle of Würzburg as a cavalry brigade commander . In 1799 , the prince fought on the Rhine as a brigade commander in Lieutenant Field Marsh Johann Sigismund , Count Riesch ' s cavalry division and was distinguished in the battle of Stockach , on 25 – 26 March , when his Cuirassiers broke and scattered the reserve cavalry division of Jean - Joseph Ange d ' Hautpoul . On 3 November , on his own initiative , he attacked the French under Michel Ney at Löchgau - Erligheim on the River Enz , defeating them decisively , and driving them west to Sinsheim . This action convinced Francois Lecourbe , French commander of the siege of the at Philippsburg , to withdraw . For the prince ' s action on the Enz , Francis II , Holy Roman Emperor awarded him the Knight ' s Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa on 21 November 1799 . On 2 – 3 December 1799 , he commanded the 3rd Assault Column , with three battalions and 26 squadrons of cavalry ) under overall command of Lieutenant Field Marshal Anton , Graf Sztáray , in the imperial victory at Wiesloch over Francois Lecourbe ' s French troops . On 6 March 1800 he was promoted to Lieutenant Field Marshal and transferred back to the imperial army in southern Germany , under command of Pál Kray . Subsequently commanded a cavalry division in the Imperial center at the defeat in the battle of Hohenlinden on 3 December . Napoleonic Wars . In 1801 , he was appointed Colonel - Proprietor ( Inhaber ) of 7th Dragoon Regiment . Prior to the Capitulation of Ulm , he , Karl Philipp , Prince of Schwarzenberg , and Archduke Ferdinand d ' Este broke out of the French cordon surrounding the city and escaped to Bohemia , hotly pursued by the French cavalry . On 5 November , he commanded an Austrian cavalry column at the Battle of Dürenstein and a few weeks later , he commanded the Austrian cavalry at the Allied defeat at the Battle of Austerlitz . The decisive French victory at the Battle of Austerlitz over the combined Russian and Austrian armies forced the Austrian withdrawal from the Coalition . The subsequent Peace of Pressburg , signed on 26 December 1805 , reinforced the earlier treaties of Campo Formio and Lunéville . Furthermore , Austria ceded land to Napoleon ' s German allies , and paid an indemnity of 40 million franc s . Victory at Austerlitz also gave Napoleon the latitude to create a buffer zone of German states between France and Prussia , Russia , and Austria . These measures did not establish a lasting peace on the continent . Prussian worries about growing French influence in Central Europe sparked the War of the Fourth Coalition in 1806 , in which Austria did not participate . Austria did not return to active war against France until the Danube Campaign of 1809 . Although the Hasburgs eked out a victory at Aspern and Essling , the campaign resulted in yet another decisive defeat at Wagram . In this campaign , the prince saw no active service , although for nine months in 1809 , he served as " Adlatus " ( noble adjutant and mentor ) of the Commanding General in Galicia . In December , he retired to his estates in Hungary , where he died on 16 June 1815 in Kaschau , today Košice , in the Czech Republic .