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…furthermore called his generals and senior field grade officers to his tent where he delivered a rousing speech, calling on them to do their duty and uphold their honour, explaining his basic plan to attack the Austrians at Breslau. The summer and autumn of 1757 were not kind to Frederick. He had been forced to abandon his invasion of Bohemia…
Prince Eugene of Savoy and his General Staff at the Battle of Zenta Battle of Zenta, September 11, 1697 PRINCIPAL COMBATANTS: Austria (with a Holy League consisting of the Holy Roman Empire, Venice, Poland, and, after 1686, Moscow) vs. Ottoman Empire PRINCIPAL THEATER(S): Hungary and the Balkans MAJOR ISSUES AND…
Turenne marching with his troops. The Battle of Enzheim was fought on 4 October 1674 near Entzheim in present-day Alsace between the French Royal Army under the command of the Vicomte de Turenne on one side and Imperial Army of the Holy Roman Empire on the other side during the…
The Bosnian-Herzegovinian Infantry (Bosnisch-Hercegovinische Infanterie), commonly called the Bosniaken (German for Bosniaks), was a branch of the Austro-Hungarian Army. As Muslim units, they were granted some special and unique privileges. They had their own uniforms and units were given its own number sequence within the common army. The units were…
The Austrian army fought a rear guard action at the crossing of the Tagliamento but was defeated and withdrew to the northeast. The French crossed the river under artillery fire. Here Bonaparte employed his mixed order formation on a large scale that broke through the Austrian defences for 500 casualties…
Battle of Hohenfriedberg, Attack of the Prussian Infantry , by Carl Röchling. Oil on canvas. HOHENFRIEDBERG, or HOHENFRIEDEBERG The battle gets its name from a village in Silesia about 6 miles from the small town of Striegau in the War of the Austrian Succession, the battle was fought on the…
Emperor Peter III, 1762 After Peter succeeded to the Russian throne (5 January 1762 ), he withdrew Russian forces from the Seven Years’ War and concluded a peace treaty (5 May 1762) with Prussia (the “Miracle of the House of Brandenburg”). He gave up Russian conquests in Prussia and offered…
Roth-Steyr Models 1907 and 1912 Austria-Hungary finally moved to replace its aging Rast-Gasser revolvers with…
Pack-horse of a cavalry machine gun detachment; members of these and the telegraph detachments were…
The death of the Chevalier de Belle-Isle, Battle of Assietta. In October 1740, Emperor Charles…
Austria’s decision for war against Serbia was not a product of fatalism, fecklessness, or incompetence.…
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