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Karansebes, 20 September 1788 – Myth?

Austria Battle 24 Min Read

The Story Goes… Another loud crack followed the crashing and screaming nearby. Caught in that brief instant between sleep and consciousness, the soldier’s mind struggled to filter through the confusion. It was all noise, darkness and shock. And that strange metallic smell of blood. There were no stars to give him light. He hugged the wet ground, his fingers scraped…

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PRINCE EUGENE AND THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION II

The seizure of Cremona Villeroi fell back on Cremona, where events took a picturesque turn. After five months of careful consolidation following his victory at Chiari, Eugene again took the offensive. His army was still well provisioned and disciplined. He had executed forty-eight soldiers for looting houses around Mantua and,…

Austria Biography Wars 26 Min Read

PRINCE EUGENE AND THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION III

Portrait of Prince Eugene of Savoy by Jan Kupecký. Shown here in late middle age. Austria, Grenadier zu Pferde (Horse Grenadiers) 1730 by Rudolf von Ottenfeld Eugene’s military reforms and Austrian white Eugene was keen to incorporate lessons learnt from his campaigning next to Marlborough. In his role as President…

Austria Ottoman Wars 34 Min Read

The Threat to Vienna 1683 I

In February 1683 Quartermaster-General Haslingen drew up a complete list of Leopold’s troops and of the areas in which they were stationed. He counted seventy companies in Bohemia, forty-five in Moravia, and forty-eight in Silesia—with a complement, in theory, of 7,600 foot and 10,000 cuirassiers and dragoons. There were seventy-five…

Austria Ottoman Wars 37 Min Read

The Threat to Vienna 1683 II

Kara Mustafa Pasha -Grand Vizier and Commander of Ottoman Empire At nine o’clock, on the morning of 7 July the whole position changed with appalling suddenness. Lorraine was riding a mile or two from his headquarters when he heard that the Turks had entered Ungarisch-Altenburg in great force. The surprise…

Austria Battle France Germany 10 Min Read

Rossbach

The outcome of the 90-minute battle was hardly in doubt. Date: 5 November 1757. Location: One mile north-west of Weissenfels (Route No, 71) to the west of the road to Halle. War and campaign: The Seven Years’ War; German Campaign of 1757. Object of the action: Frederick interposed his army…

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Battle of Slankamen

August 19, 1691 The battles with the Turk were not just a success for the Habsburgs but for much of Christian Europe, aside from France. 7 On 5 March 1684, Pope Innocent XI had sponsored a new and highly effective Holy League for a war that was to last until…

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