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1814 Napoleon’s First End Part II

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Allied entry into Paris 1814, Painting by Aleksey Danilovich Kivshenko. Battle of Paris 1814. For the emperor, however, cheer was still to be found in the continued devotion shown by some soldiers. In Paris, one last parade saw Napoleon entrust Marie-Louise and the King of Rome to the garrison prior to his departure for the front: ‘The enthusiasm generated by…

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KöniggrÀtz: Battle of Eagles

The Prussian military system had been thoroughly reformed after Napoleon had crushed it at Jena in 1806. The crucial development was the growth of a Great General Staff, embodied in law in 1814. Bright officers were selected to what was effectively a military brotherhood, charged with continuous study of the…

Austria Ottoman 27 Min Read

The Habsburg counter-offensive

The reconquest of Hungary 1683–1718 Years of success 1683–1689 In autumn 1683, shortly after the relief of Vienna, the allied forces advanced into Ottoman Hungary. Following a clear victory at PĂĄrkĂĄny in early October, Gran was captured late in the same month and Thököly pushed back in Upper Hungary. In…

Austria Prussia Wars 27 Min Read

The Beginning of the Seven Years’ War

Prince Anton Wenzel Kaunitz The reversal of the alliances Austrian Chancellor Prince Anton Wenzel Kaunitz had already seen the possibilities and his presence earlier in Paris gave him the opportunity to soften up the French court further, not least through contact with the influential mistress of the French King, Madame…

Austria Navies 18 Min Read

Austria-Hungary: An Inland Empire Looks to the Sea I

Career of the Tegetthof class In March 1918, a United States navy memorandum characterized the Adriatic Sea as “practically an Austrian lake, in which no Allied naval operations of importance are undertaken.” The assessment came just four weeks after the Austro-Hungarian navy suffered its worst mutiny of the First World…

Austria Navies 18 Min Read

Austria-Hungary: An Inland Empire Looks to the Sea II

Bombarding of Ancona by August von Ramberg, depicting Austro-Hungarian battleships shelling the Italian coastline in May 1915 At the turn of the century, Germany’s decision to challenge Britain’s hegemony at sea transformed the Triple Alliance into an anti-British bloc no longer attractive to Italy. The program outlined in Admiral Alfred…

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Hochkirch, Saxony, 1758 Part I

Preliminaries to Battle at Hochkirch In the interim, the king laid plans to attack Laudon and, driving him from the road in from Bautzen, to shove him back towards his allies. He had to possess this route for two reasons: (1) It would put the main army astride the road…

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WWI Austro-Hungarian Small Arms Part I

Roth-Steyr Models 1907 and 1912 Austria-Hungary finally moved to replace its aging Rast-Gasser revolvers with…

Austro-Hungarian Cavalry WWI

Pack-horse of a cavalry machine gun detachment; members of these and the telegraph detachments were…

Austria’s Opening Disasters – WWI

Austria’s decision for war against Serbia was not a product of fatalism, fecklessness, or incompetence.…

French Military 1850-80 Part II

Napoleon III Watches the Rhine In setting out to coerce Austria out of Germany, Bismarck…