- 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
Mater Castrorum
Mater Castrorum
- Chapter:
- (p.137) Chapter 6 Mater Castrorum
- Source:
- For God and Kaiser
- Author(s):
Richard Bassett
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter discusses the victory of Maria Theresa's armies against Prussia. Six years of war cost Austria nearly half a million men, but Prussian casualties were much higher. With two French armies crossing the Rhine, a Swedish army advancing on Pomerania, and a Russian force headed for East Prussia, the very existence of Frederick's kingdom became open to question. By the end of the war Prussia, both as a state and military machine, was a wasteland. Austria's armies, on the other hand, enjoyed a high reputation while the Empress came to be seen as a Mater Castrorum, Mother of War.
Keywords: Maria Theresa, Habsburg army, Austrian army, Mother of War, Prussia
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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
