There are also several accounts of Charles's seizures from the year 1799. The court physician Ludwig Wolff writes in a letter: 'His Royal Highness has unfortunately not been in the best of health for several months. His Royal Highness is often troubled by so-called nervous convulsions... |
As his Royal Highness had an epileptic seizure last night which so exhausted him that he has not been able to leave your bed today, my conscience forbids me to be silent on this matter any longer.' Nevertheless, Arch Duke Charles's epilepsy does not appear to have impeded his activities much at all. It was he who inflicted the first military defeat on Napoleon in the battle of Aspern in 1809 and who in 1813 published his intelligently-written three-volume work 'The Basics of Strategy', a "theory of war which is equal that later written by von Clausewitz." |