The largest force continually engaged against Napoleon was not the British army and Wellington, but the Imperial and Royal Austrian Army led by Archduke Charles. Gunter Rothenberg’s work remains the definitive volume on the forces that inflicted the first defeat on the French and participated in all the Continental wars of the period.

The largest force continually engaged against Napoleon was not the British army and Wellington, but the Imperial and Royal Austrian Army led by Archduke Charles. Gunter Rothenberg’s work remains the definitive volume on the forces that inflicted the first defeat on the French and participated in all the Continental wars of the period.