5. Austria Resurgent: Theresian Military Reforms

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. List of Illustrations xi
4. Acknowledgements xxix
5. Maps xxxiv
6. Introduction 1
7. Part 1. The Habsburg Connection
8. 1. The Kaiser’s Cuirassiers: A Dynasty Saved 11
9. 2. For God and Emperor: The Relief of Vienna 38
10. 3. ‘The noble knight’: Prince Eugene and the War of the Spanish Succession 56
11. 4. ‘Our Blood and Life’: The Great Empress 83
12. 5. Austria Resurgent: Theresian Military Reforms 110
13. 6. Mater Castrorum 137
14. 7. The Army and the Josephinian Enlightenment 164
15. Part 2. Revolution and Reaction
16. 8. The Army and the French Revolution 185
17. 9. From Marengo to Austerlitz: The Second and Third Coalition Wars 211
18. 10. Shattering the Myth: Aspern and Essling 242
19. 11. Clash of Titans: Wagram 266
20. 12. From Znaim to Leipzig 279
21. 13. Biedermeier, Vormärz and Radetzky 291
22. 14. From Magenta and Solferino to the Düppel and Oeversee 310
23. 15. The Austro-Prussian War: Königgrätz 1866 328
24. 16. Victories in the South: Custozza and Lissa 1866 350
25. Part 3. Imperial and Royal
26. 17. k. (u.) k.: The ‘new army’ and the Bosnian Insurgency 365
27. 18. Towards a Twentieth-century Navy: The Siege at Pekin 383
28. 19. The Evidenzbüro and Colonel Redl.: The k. (u.) k. Army on the Eve of Catastrophe 396
29. 20. The Military Road to Sarajevo 413
30. 21. The Army and the July Crisis 434
31. 22. Austria-Hungary’s Last War: 1914 458
32. 23. 1915–1916: Bayonets in the Dolomites 480
33. 24. 1916–1918: The End of the Old Army 498
34. 25. Finis Austriae? 511
35. 26. Aftermath 535
36. Notes 541
37. Selected Bibliography 558
38. Index 569