John

…particular those of the archduke John (who was put under house arrest for planning a premature anti-French rising in the Alps), Metternich firmly adhered to neutrality while Austria secretly rearmed. He even drew Saxony into the neutral camp for a time. When, later in 1813, Saxony’s return to the French…

…troops of his brother, Archduke John. On the evening of July 5, after having crossed the Danube River, he hastily attacked the thinly stretched Austrian positions but was beaten back.