last active command. Retirement In 1801, he became the proprietor of the Ott Hussar Regiment # 5. He retired from the army in 1805. The Ott Hussars served in Italy and Hungary during the War of the Fifth Coalition in 1809. Ott died in Buda on 10 May of that year. References Arnold, James R. Marengo & Hohenlinden. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Pen & Sword, 2005. Bowden, Scotty & Tarbox, Charlie. Armies on the Danube 1809. Arlington, Texas: Empire Games Press, 1980. Boycott-Brown, Martin. The Road to Rivoli. London: Cassell & Co., 2001. Chandler, David. Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars. New York: Macmillan, 1979. Clausewitz, Carl von (2018). Napoleon's 1796 Italian Campaign. Trans and ed. Nicholas Murray and Christopher Pringle. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. Clausewitz, Carl von (2020). Napoleon Absent, Coalition Ascendant: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 1. Trans and ed. Nicholas Murray and Christopher Pringle. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. Clausewitz, Carl von (2021). The Coalition Crumbles, Napoleon Returns: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 2. Trans and ed. Nicholas Murray and Christopher Pringle. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. Pivka, Otto von. Armies of the Napoleonic Era. New York: Taplinger Publishing, 1979. Smith, Digby. The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill, 1998. External links Peter Ott by Digby Smith, compiled by Leopold Kudrna Footnotes Austrian Empire military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars Hungarian generals 1738 births 1809 deaths