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Pages in category "World War I artillery of Austria-Hungary" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
World War I began when Austria-Hungary invaded Serbia in July 1914, following the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip. Austria-Hungary was one of the Central Powers, along with the German Empire and the Ottoman Empire. Austro-Hungarian forces fought the Allies in Serbia, on the Eastern Front, in Italy, and in Romania ...
14 Ottoman Empire. 15 Portuguese ... Austro-Hungarian Empire. Edged weapons. M1858/61 Kavalleriesäbel; ... Naval artillery. BL 6-inch gun Mk V (Coast defence gun)
During WWI the Ottoman Empire engaged in a genocide against local ethnicities in its territory. The Armenian genocide, [49] also known as the Armenian Holocaust, [50] was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of 1.5 million Christian Armenians, mostly Ottoman citizens within the Ottoman Empire and its successor state, the Republic ...
After Saint Ladislaus' death, his nephew, the King Coloman of Hungary ascended to the Hungarian throne. The feudal lords of Croatia elected a new king, and tried to get rid of the Hungarian occupation, and then the Hungarians took up arms against Croatia , and won a bloody victory at Gvozd Mountain .
The most common types of Ottoman field guns during WWI were German-designed and manufactured 75-mm Krupp M03 L/30 Field, 77-mm Krupp M96 L/27 nA and the 77-mm Rheinmetall M16 L/35 guns. Desperately short of field artillery, the Ottoman Army also used a lot of older and obsolescent field guns, some dating back to the 1870s, as well as captured ...
Austro-Hungarian artillery 1914. Among the European powers, in proportion to its national income, Austria-Hungary paid the lowest attention to the development and maintenance of its army. Despite having developed new types of world class modern cannons, the majority of the Austro-Hungarian artillery pieces were from old and very obsolete types.
British artillery in action at the Battle of the Somme, 1916; U.S. troops and Renault FT tanks during the Hundred Days Offensive, 1918; German machine gun crew wearing gas masks, 1918; Ottoman Arab camel corps leaving for the Middle Eastern front, 1916; Aftermath of the Russian siege of Przemyśl in Austria-Hungary, 1915