- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Maps
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 The Kaiser’s Cuirassiers -
Chapter 2 For God and Emperor -
Chapter 3 ‘The noble knight’ -
Chapter 4 ‘Our Blood and Life’ -
Chapter 5 Austria Resurgent -
Chapter 6 Mater Castrorum -
Chapter 7 The Army and the Josephinian Enlightenment -
Chapter 8 The Army and the French Revolution -
Chapter 9 From Marengo to Austerlitz -
Chapter 10 Shattering the Myth -
Chapter 11 Clash of Titans -
Chapter 12 From Znaim to Leipzig -
Chapter 13 Biedermeier, Vormärz and Radetzky -
Chapter 14 From Magenta and Solferino to the Düppel and Oeversee -
Chapter 15 The Austro-Prussian War -
Chapter 16 Victories in the South -
Chapter 17 k. (u.) k. -
Chapter 18 Towards a Twentieth-century Navy -
Chapter 19 The Evidenzbüro and Colonel Redl. -
Chapter 20 The Military Road to Sarajevo -
Chapter 21 The Army and the July Crisis -
Chapter 22 Austria-Hungary’s Last War -
Chapter 23 1915–1916 -
Chapter 24 1916–1918 -
Chapter 25 Finis Austriae? -
Chapter 26 Aftermath - Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Illustration
Victories in the South
Victories in the South
Custozza and Lissa 1866
- Chapter:
- (p.350) Chapter 16 Victories in the South
- Source:
- For God and Kaiser
- Author(s):
Richard Bassett
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter focuses on the Habsburg forces' successful campaigns in Italy. Less than two weeks before Königgrätz, Vittorio Emanuele had declared war on Austria in accordance with his alliance with Prussia. Unlike in Bohemia, the formalities had been observed and the Italian monarch had dispatched an aide with a formal declaration of war to the Austrian headquarters in Verona where the Archduke Albert had taken up residence. The Southern Army of the Habsburgs was made up of many fine regiments. The Archduke commanded barely 75,000 troops against a foe of 200,000 equipped with more than twice the amount of artillery he could muster. Nonetheless, the Austrians managed to defeat the Italians at Custozza. The Austrian navy also defeated the Italians at Lissa, giving a morale boost to its traditions, which lasted for the rest of its existence.
Keywords: Austrian army, Italy, military campaigns, declaration of war, Vittorio Emanuele, Archduke Albert, Austrian navy
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Maps
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 The Kaiser’s Cuirassiers -
Chapter 2 For God and Emperor -
Chapter 3 ‘The noble knight’ -
Chapter 4 ‘Our Blood and Life’ -
Chapter 5 Austria Resurgent -
Chapter 6 Mater Castrorum -
Chapter 7 The Army and the Josephinian Enlightenment -
Chapter 8 The Army and the French Revolution -
Chapter 9 From Marengo to Austerlitz -
Chapter 10 Shattering the Myth -
Chapter 11 Clash of Titans -
Chapter 12 From Znaim to Leipzig -
Chapter 13 Biedermeier, Vormärz and Radetzky -
Chapter 14 From Magenta and Solferino to the Düppel and Oeversee -
Chapter 15 The Austro-Prussian War -
Chapter 16 Victories in the South -
Chapter 17 k. (u.) k. -
Chapter 18 Towards a Twentieth-century Navy -
Chapter 19 The Evidenzbüro and Colonel Redl. -
Chapter 20 The Military Road to Sarajevo -
Chapter 21 The Army and the July Crisis -
Chapter 22 Austria-Hungary’s Last War -
Chapter 23 1915–1916 -
Chapter 24 1916–1918 -
Chapter 25 Finis Austriae? -
Chapter 26 Aftermath - Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Illustration
