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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 ...
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Austro-Hungarian red book. (1915) English translations of official documents to justify the war. online; Albertini, Luigi. The Origins of the War of 1914 (3 vol 1952). vol 3 pp 66–111. Gooch, G.P. Recent revelations of European diplomacy (1928) pp 269–330.online; Major 1914 documents from BYU
Of the pre–World War military forces of the major European powers, the Austro-Hungarian army was almost alone in its regular promotion of Jews to positions of command. [13] While the Jewish population of the lands of the Dual Monarchy 4.4% including Bosnia and Herzegovina), Jews made up nearly 18% of the reserve officer corps. [12]
At the outbreak of war, the Austro-Hungarian army had 48 infantry divisions (including seven Landwehr and eight Honved) and eleven cavalry divisions (of which two were Honved). The Austro-Hungarian infantry division numbered between 12,000 and 18,000 men, while the cavalry divisions averaged 5,000 fewer soldiers.
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After 1878, Bosnia and Herzegovina came under Austro-Hungarian joint military and civilian rule [15] until it was fully annexed in 1908, provoking the Bosnian crisis. [16] Austria-Hungary was one of the Central Powers in World War I, which began with an Austro-Hungarian war declaration on the Kingdom of Serbia on 28 July 1914.
The Hungarian half of the empire received the right, in addition to the Austro-Hungarian Army (now Common Army, which was subordinate to the Minister of War) to set up its own territorial forces from 1867, the Royal Hungarian Honvéd (Hungarian: Királyi Honvédség). It was subordinate to the Hungarian Ministry of War.
On 2 August, the Austro-Hungarian advance cavalry units of the Hungarian Hussars of the 7th Regiment arrived at the banks of the Bosna river in the central Bosnian region. A unit of hussars crossed the river, but was ambushed by Bosnian-Ottoman units upon entering the city, and the subsequent clash resulted in significant combat losses in the number of about fifty fallen horsemen.