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The Austrian army 1805-1809 - Vol. 2: Grenzer, Lanswher & elite forces
Even when a history writer would have wanted to celebrate, maybe the greatest European power (on land), namely the Austrian Empire, he certainly would not had chosen the terrible year 1809. What for the military apparatus in Vienna could have been a beginning of a Great Military Reform, the triumph of the Generalissimus Archduke Charles, became one of the worst nightmares of Habsburg history. In short, after a series of unfortunate events and bad military conduct, Austria disappeared from the European scene, losing further important territories but, above all, losing its mighty armies. The author chooses to tell about that period, evaluating the military organization, starting from the recru...
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Napoleon's Defeat of the Habsburgs
This history of the 1809 Franco-Austrian War presents an in-depth chronicle Napoleon’s last great victory. On April 10th, 1809, while Napoleon was occupied in Western Europe with the Peninsular War, the Austrian Empire launched a surprise attack that sparked the War of the Fifth Coalition. Though France would ultimately win the conflict, it would be Napoleon’s last victorious war. Even then, the margin of French superiority was decreasing. Archduke Charles, the best of the Habsburg commanders, led a reformed Austrian Army that was arguably the best ever fielded by the Danubian Monarchy. Though caught off guard, the French Emperor reversed a dire strategic situation with stunning blows th...
Napoleon's Defeat of the Habsburgs Volume III
“A very impressive piece of work, and it is unlikely to be surpassed for many years . . . A very valuable guide to Napoleon’s last great victory” (HistoryOfWar.org). With this third volume, John Gill brings to a close his magisterial study of the war between Napoleonic France and Habsburg Austria. The account begins with both armies recuperating on the banks of the Danube. As they rest, important action was taking place elsewhere: Eugene won a crucial victory over Johann on the anniversary of Marengo, Prince Poniatowski’s Poles outflanked another Austrian archduke along the Vistula, and Marmont drove an Austrian force out of Dalmatia to join Napoleon at Vienna. These campaigns set th...
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Für die Historiographie der Habsburgermonarchie stellt die systematische Erforschung des Themenkomplexes "Deportation" völliges Neuland dar. Während die Zeitgeschichte Deportationspraktiken so behandelt, als wären sie ausschließlich eine Begleiterscheinung der totalitären Systeme des 20. Jahrhunderts, ergibt die Rekonstruktion ihrer "Frühgeschichte" ein vollkommen anderes Bild: als Instrument der Bestrafung, der Machtdemonstration und der Bevölkerungspolitik wurden sie im Habsburgerreich bereits im 18. Jahrhundert weitreichend und mit erschreckender "Modernität" angewandt. Anhand von acht Fallbeispielen entsteht eine Gesamtgeschichte, die auch den europäischen Rahmen einbezieht und einen unverzichtbaren Baustein zu einer Gewaltgeschichte der Habsburgermonarchie darstellt.
Kardinal Khlesl
Das Leben des Melchior Khlesl verläuft spektakulär. Geboren Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts in Wien, bringt es der Sohn eines protestantischen Bäckermeisters zum katholischen Generalreformator in Österreich und wird Bischof von Wien. Später schafft er den Aufstieg zum Günstling-Minister des Kaisers und Kardinal. Der Emporkömmling wird zu einem gerissenen Staatsmann, der wie Richelieu für seinen Herrscher mit Vernunft und Intrige europaweit regiert. Die Herausforderungen sind gewaltig. Er streitet im Römisch-Deutschen Reich des Jahrzehnts vor dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg für Frieden und Verständigung der Glaubenslager. Zerstrittene Reichsstände, Ständeopposition in der Habsburgermonarchie, Türkenkrieg, Friauler Krieg, Jülicher Wirren, die Fehden der Habsburger untereinander, eine feindselige Machtelite und Attentate setzten ihm zu. Welche Chancen eröffneten sich Khlesl, um die Aufgaben zu meistern?
The Salzburg Transaction
In this elegant book Mack Walker not only provides the most complete available account of the expulsion but also makes a strikingly original contribution to historical method. He tells the story in five different ways: as an episode in the history of the Salzburg archbishopric, in the history of the Prussian state, in the confessional and constitutional life of the Holy Roman Empire, in the experience of the emigrants themselves, and in the legendry of German (especially Prussian) Protestantism. His unusual narrative method enables him to reveal, as perhaps no previous historian has done, the intricate inner workings of the Holy Roman Empire, where conflicting confessional, dynastic, political, and economic interests were held in constantly shifting balance. The exile of the Salzburg Protestants, Walker shows, satisfied all parties concerned - except possibly the migrants themselves.
