In 1784 he entered the service of the
Palatinate, which he quit in 1792 to take command as a colonel of a French army regiment raised by his father for the service of the
émigré princes of France. He greatly distinguished himself under
Condé in the campaigns of 1792–93, especially at the storming of the
lines of Wissembourg. 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. After the Dutch surrendered to the French armies, Hohenlohe joined the
Austrian army with whom he fought in the campaigns of 1794 to 1798. The following year he was named major-general by the Archduke
Charles of Austria. Hohenlohe was promoted to the rank of
Feldmarschallleutnant in 1806 and the next year saw him being appointed governor of
Galicia.
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
mediatised to
Württemberg in 1806. 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 consisted of three battalions each of the Infantry Regiments Josef Mittrowsky Nr. 40, Bellegarde Nr. 44 and Chasteler Nr. 46, the 5th and 6th Battalions of the Archduke Karl Legion and 14 artillery pieces. At the
Battle of Aspern-Essling on 21–22 May, he led Infantry Regiments Hiller Nr. 2, Czartorisky Nr. 9, Sztaray Nr. 33 and Reuss-Greitz Nr. 55. His division numbered 9,261 infantry and 16 6-pound cannons, The IV Corps was involved in the murderous struggle for the village of Essling. At the
Battle of Wagram on 5–6 July he led the Hiller and Sztaray Regiments, a total of 4,479 men. He commanded a division in
Ignaz Gyulai's III Austrian Corps during the
1814 Campaign in France. He led his troops during the
First Battle of Bar-sur-Aube Service in France 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. The following year he held the command of a
regiment raised by himself, with which he took part in the
Spanish campaign of 1823. The same year he was
naturalized a French citizen, upon which he was made a
Peer of France. In 1827 was given the distinction of
Marshal of France. ==Personal life==