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Austro-Hungarian Land Forces 1848-1918
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html><head> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/> <meta content="Glenn Jewison & Jörg C. Steiner" name="author"/> <meta content="2001 Glenn Jewison & Jörg C. Steiner" name="COPYRIGHT"/> <meta content="Austro-Hungarian Army. Documenting the organisational history of the Austro-Hungarian land forces 1848-1918. 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Steiner</font></font></p> </td> <td width="17"></td> <td rowspan="2" valign="top" width="442"><a href="/paintings.htm"><img align="right" alt="General der Infanterie Erzherzog Friedrich" border="0" height="294" hspace="5" src="/FRIEDR2.JPG" vspace="5" width="227"/> </a><a href="/portraits/radetzky.jpg"> </a> The aim of this site is to document the organisational history of the land forces of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy from just prior to the outbreak of the Great War until the collapse of the monarchy in 1918. The subject is complex and large. Very little is available in the English language and what is available tends to be of the allied forces intelligence type information and books derived from those sources. These were of necessity produced during wartime in difficult conditions and are not to be considered as fully reliable or accurate. In compiling the tables of units on this site we have therefore consulted the original "Schematismus" (army lists) and the official Austrian history of the Great War - "Österreich-Ungarns letzter Krieg". These are not only primary sources but also have the advantage of also providing accurate German language terminology and spelling. As previously stated, the subject is huge and therefore the site will be a continually evolving project. We intend to produce as time goes on not only the organisation of the land forces, but also biographies of senior commanders, individual regimental histories and details of particular engagements and battles in the not too well documented Italian, Galician, Carpathian, Rumanian and Serbian theatres of operations. The primary motive for producing a site of this type was to document the largely unknown subject of the Austro-Hungarian forces and to provide a mirror to Mick O'Shea's <a href="http://www.users.hunterlink.net.au/~maampo/militaer/milindex.html">Pocket German Army site</a>. In this way we can hopefully provide information on both of the major players which made up the central powers in the Great War. We have additionally decided to also expand the scope of the site to encompass the period from 1848 up to the collapse of the Monarchy and the post-war Bundesheer. We welcome comments and suggestions and can be reached via email. Finally a word of thanks to Klemen Lužar for his fine contributions on the Isonzo front, to Christian Frech for his expertise on organisational and MMThO themes, to Enzo Calabresi for providing photographs from his superb collection and to Christian Ortner for his excellent knowledge on the Austro-Hungarian Assault Troops and their insignia. <p>Fans of gambling in New Zealand can use POLi to deposit funds into online casinos. <a href="https://gamblorium.com/nz/casinos/poli/" title="POLi casinos NZ">POLi casinos NZ</a> offer a trusted and efficient way to fund your online casino account. 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