Editing Trachenberg Plan (section)

==Development==
[[File:Karl XIV Johan, king of Sweden and Norway, painted by Fredric Westin.jpg|180px|left|thumb|Former Marshal of the Empire Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, later Crown Prince Charles John of Sweden, co-author of the Trachenberg Plan]]
The plan held elements of a number of other plans developed over the past two years by men such as Russian generals [[Karl_Wilhelm_von_Toll| Karl Wilhelm von Toll]], [[Michael_Andreas_Barclay_de_Tolly| Barclay de Tolly]] and former French General, and Napoleon's erstwhile rival, [[Jean_Victor_Marie_Moreau|Jean Victor Moreau]], who was in correspondence with Charles John and en route to Sweden in summer 1813. However, the final plan was primarily an amalgam of two prior works that had been developed in parallel: the Trachenberg Protocol and the Reichenbach Plan,<ref>Leggiere, Michael (2015). pp. 51–60</ref> created by Crown Prince [[Charles XIV John of Sweden|Charles John]] of Sweden (formerly Napoleon's Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte) whose experience with the tactics and methods of the ''Grande Armée'', as well as personal insight on Napoleon's strategies, proved invaluable, and the Austrian chief of staff of the Sixth Coalition, [[Joseph Radetzky von Radetz]]. 

Charles John had given a great deal of military advice to Tsar [[Alexander I of Russia]] during the 1812 Russian Campaign (after having turned down Alexander's offer of generalissimo of the Russian armies) on how to defeat the French invasion, and was able to see the successful practical outcomes of some of his theories and strategies that had been used by the Russians.<ref>Barton, Dunbar Plunkett (1925) pp. 40-43. John Murray, London.</ref> Charles John refined his strategies over the next year, applied them to the probable theater of operations of Northern Germany, and presented them to Alexander and [[Frederick Wilhelm III]] of Prussia at the Trachenberg Conference held on July 9-12, 1813 during the [[Truce of Pläswitz]]. The Allied sovereigns, after modifications to take into account the various policy considerations necessary to keep the disparate coalition partners happy, adopted Charles John's proposals as the basis of the general Coalition campaign plan.<ref>Scott, Franklin D. (1935) Bernadotte and the Fall of Napoleon. Pp. 88-90. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.</ref> Meanwhile, Radetzky and the Austrians had been developing their own campaign plan in parallel, despite not officially joining the Sixth Coalition until August 12, 1813, based on the presumed theater of Saxony and Northeast Germany with a final decisive battle as its climax, the details of which folded well into the protocol agreed to at Trachenberg. The combined, modified version of the two prior campaign plans became known as the Trachenberg Plan.<ref>Leggiere, Michael (2015). p. 62</ref><ref>Barton, Dunbar Plunkett (1930) pp. 283–284</ref><ref>Scott, Franklin D. (1935) Bernadotte and the Fall of Napoleon. P. 90. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.</ref>