Category Archives: Austrian

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Franz Moritz von Lacy 1725-1801

Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy was a Baltic German-born Austrian military leader, he was the son of Count Peter von Lacy and was a famous Austrian field marshal. He served during the reign of Maria Theresa and was a close friend to Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, becoming one of the latter’s advisers.
Size 8.5 x 14 cms
Price £14.00

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Prince Frederick Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld 1737-1815

In 1793/4, Prince Josias was the principal Commander of the Austrian forces in the Netherlands and one of Britain’s allies during the War of the First Coalition against revolutionary France. Along with General Count Clairfayt, he won major victories at Aldenhoven and Neerwinden against Dumouriez, and it was he who selected the newly-arrived Duke of York to command the siege operations against Valenciennes.
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00

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Johann Fernberger von Aur 1511-1584

Imperial troop leader, born in 1511 in Aur an der Etsch, 1584 as mayor of Vienna. The son of a landsknecht and growing up without any schooling, F. chose a career as a soldier, was enlisted in the imperial occupation troops in Italy in 1530 and subsequently took part in the war against Francis 1 of France. Sent to the army in Hungary in 1540, he was wounded in a bloody but unsuccessful attack on Ofen and was taken prisoner by the Turks in a later battle. After he had freed himself again by paying a ransom, he came to this again in the Milanese war
Size 18 x 28 cms
Price £28.00

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Klemens von Metternich 1773-1859

Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein known as Klemens von Metternich or Prince Metternich, was a conservative Austrian statesman and diplomat who was at the center of the European balance of power known as the Concert of Europe for three decades as the Austrian Empire’s foreign minister from 1809 and Chancellor from 1821 until the liberal Revolutions of 1848 forced his resignation.
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00

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