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The Austrian Army 1740-80: Infantry

By Philip Haythornthwaite , Bill Younghusband

Book information

Publisher
Osprey
Year
1994
ISBN
9781855324183, 1-85532-418-0
Open Library ID
OL8992879M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5142584 bytes)
Series
Men At Arms 280
Volume
vol 2
Pages
48\48
Topic
History
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

At the accession of Maria Theresa in 1740, the Austro-Hungarian army included 52 infantry regiments, of which three were Hungarian, three Netherlandish and one Italian. The remainder drew their recruits not only from the Habsburg territories, including Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia (the last being lost to Prussia in 1742), but from the autonomous states of the Holy Roman Empire and beyond. The proportion of Hungarian raised regiments was set to rise in the coming years though - indeed 'foreign' personnel comprised an important part of the military etablishment. This title, the second in a sequence of three, details the organisation, uniform and equipment of the cosmopolitan Austrian Army from 1740-80, focusing on infantry troops.

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