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Soldier of the Landwehr-Regiment Nr. 6 in battle dress. The Austro-Hungarian Army, also known as the Imperial and Royal Army, [A. 1] was the principal ground force of Austria-Hungary from 1867 to 1918.
The Italians captured 448,000 Austrian-Hungarian soldiers (about one-third of the imperial-royal army), 24 of whom were generals, [40] 5,600 cannons and mortars, and 4,000 machine guns. [41] The armistice was signed at Villa Giusti on 3 November, in spite of Austria–Hungary already having disintegrated on 31 October 1918.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire conscripted 7.8 million soldiers during World War I. [3] Although the Kingdom of Hungary comprised only 42% of the population of Austria-Hungary, [4] the thin majority – more than 3.8 million soldiers – of the Austro-Hungarian armed forces were conscripted from the Kingdom of Hungary during the First World War ...
Armee) was a field army-level command in the ground forces of Austria-Hungary during World War I. The army fought in Galicia and Russian Poland in 1914–15 before being briefly dissolved in the summer of 1916. Shortly afterwards, it was reformed and sent to fight in the Romanian Campaign for the next two years.
Media in category "Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I" The following 2 files are in this category, out of 2 total. A portrait-caricature of an Austro-Hungarian soldier.WWI postcard art.Wittig collection.item 42.obverse.scan.jpg 6,261 × 8,137; 6.62 MB
The Austro-Hungarian military was a direct descendant of the military forces of the Habsburg sections Holy Roman Empire from the 13th century and the successor state that was the Austrian Empire from 1804. For 200 years, Habsburg or Austrian forces had formed a main opposing military force to a repeated Ottoman campaigns in Europe, with the ...
Pages in category "Battles of World War I involving Austria-Hungary" The following 109 pages are in this category, out of 109 total.
Austria-Hungary's participation in the outbreak of World War I has been neglected by historians, as emphasis has traditionally been placed on Germany's role as the prime instigator. [39] However, the "spark" that ignited the First World War is attributed to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip, which took place on 28 ...