What would have happened if Murat’s cavalry charge at Leipzig captured the three main Coalition Monarchs and the Prince of Scwarzenburg?
At the Battle of Leipzig, Napoleon—outnumbered nearly two to one—decided that he needed to create a breakthrough with localized numerical superiority at the Coalition’s center lines in the south at Wachau. Supported by 5th Corps, the Young Guard, and two entire Cavalry Corps under Murat, the assault began in the afternoon. Some heavy Cuirassiers managed to reach within eyesight distance of where the Allied Monarchs Emperor Francis II, Tsar Alexander I, and King Fredrick William III were watching over the battle. (And the allied commander, the Prince of Schwarzeburg.)
The then-exhausted Cuirassiers got counter-attacked by the Russian Imperial Guard under Tsar Alexander’s orders and got support from cannon fire.
Hypothetically speaking, what would have happened if the charge resulted in a capture of the three allied monarchs and Schwarzenburg? Would a total capitulation of the Coalition have occurred soon after?