Post by 575 on Jul 29, 2023 16:20:50 GMT
Central Europe March 1865
In Austria a fullblown civil war was raging in Hungary while Frantz Josef had his Government negotiate the Czechs as he valued the Industrial backing a necessity.
A Bohemian Government was set up and the Czechs decided to stay in Empire. Anything else seemed an unnessessary experiment at the time with too much uncertainty going on in the German Confederation which might blow up.
This granting the Czechs a Government however urged the Hungarians and other Slavs on to both in-fight and fight the Imperial troops but the furnaces of Bohemia was stepping up production of Improved Dreyse Needle-Rifles for the Austrian and Bohemian Armies.
The Austrian Army had been on alert for some time due to the uncertanties of France and were now thrown at the Hungarians full force; the Croatians had their own grudge with the Italian and didn't want to be ruled by the Hungarians so a settlement was soon negotiated by the Austrians with the Croatian Regiments swearing loyalty to Emperor and marching East along their Austrian brothers in arms.
So too ended the Galizian Polish troubles which were directed at the Hungarians and not so much for independence with the local example just across the border in Russian Poland where the Russians still had a flare up now and then but essentially had put down the uprising of 1863. The Galizian Poles wanted the Hungarians off their back as did the Romanians and Transsylvanian Germans.
For the moment the Austrian Army reinforced as time went by by its Slavic Regiments took on the Hungarians in an effort to this time finish the job initiated 1848.
As the French was pretty occupied in Italy the Austrians had a free hand in Hungary and the Hungarians began to realize it.
In Italy the French Army was making way towards Rome though slowly as it had to guard the railways that had a tendence of blowing up when left to themselves; the Rome Garrision had been reinforced by the French Navy and were holding its own though Garibaldi kept resistance going there as well in the northwest.
In Frankfurt a.M the Austrian President was handed a German paper of renounciation of service to the Emperor. It was all German Princes having signed the act including Prussia and Grand Duchy of South Schleswig-Holstein – Saxe-Lauenburg.
PM Stauning of Denmark rejected any interference in German Confederation affairs except aiding as per treaty the Grand Duchy of South Schleswig-Holstein – Saxe-Lauenburg which was a public paper.
In Russia Tsar Alexander II was pondering what to do; he couldn't declare war on Austria with the Slav excuse as Franz Josef was aiding his various Slav Peoples against the Hungarians. However the Austrian Poles getting limited home rule was an abomination because it would spread to his own Poles and therefore had to be countered. He didn't mind cutting down the Hungarian part of the Austrian Empire but that was tricky at the moment.
However that German renunciation of Austria as leader of the German Confederation was interesting – perhaps he should play the Slavic card on the Prussians to counter his own unruly subjects especially as the Prussian Army was still rebuilding its Artillery since the defeat last year.
It had been sound politics to reforge relations with the King of Denmark; that build-up at Baku and the railways building was doing his country good. Soon he would be able to move troops fast to counter the Turk in the Caucasus – Kars would be within reach. And the news of Oil in Mosul and Persia surely he had to get there before the British.
The news from Denmark about Japan necessiated the building of the Transsiberian Railway as did a line into Turkestan.
He also well realized the need to build up in Poland to counter any future German aggression however now the situation there was a great help in keeping the Germans occupied. Damn the backdraw of a huge Empire.
In Austria a fullblown civil war was raging in Hungary while Frantz Josef had his Government negotiate the Czechs as he valued the Industrial backing a necessity.
A Bohemian Government was set up and the Czechs decided to stay in Empire. Anything else seemed an unnessessary experiment at the time with too much uncertainty going on in the German Confederation which might blow up.
This granting the Czechs a Government however urged the Hungarians and other Slavs on to both in-fight and fight the Imperial troops but the furnaces of Bohemia was stepping up production of Improved Dreyse Needle-Rifles for the Austrian and Bohemian Armies.
The Austrian Army had been on alert for some time due to the uncertanties of France and were now thrown at the Hungarians full force; the Croatians had their own grudge with the Italian and didn't want to be ruled by the Hungarians so a settlement was soon negotiated by the Austrians with the Croatian Regiments swearing loyalty to Emperor and marching East along their Austrian brothers in arms.
So too ended the Galizian Polish troubles which were directed at the Hungarians and not so much for independence with the local example just across the border in Russian Poland where the Russians still had a flare up now and then but essentially had put down the uprising of 1863. The Galizian Poles wanted the Hungarians off their back as did the Romanians and Transsylvanian Germans.
For the moment the Austrian Army reinforced as time went by by its Slavic Regiments took on the Hungarians in an effort to this time finish the job initiated 1848.
As the French was pretty occupied in Italy the Austrians had a free hand in Hungary and the Hungarians began to realize it.
In Italy the French Army was making way towards Rome though slowly as it had to guard the railways that had a tendence of blowing up when left to themselves; the Rome Garrision had been reinforced by the French Navy and were holding its own though Garibaldi kept resistance going there as well in the northwest.
In Frankfurt a.M the Austrian President was handed a German paper of renounciation of service to the Emperor. It was all German Princes having signed the act including Prussia and Grand Duchy of South Schleswig-Holstein – Saxe-Lauenburg.
PM Stauning of Denmark rejected any interference in German Confederation affairs except aiding as per treaty the Grand Duchy of South Schleswig-Holstein – Saxe-Lauenburg which was a public paper.
In Russia Tsar Alexander II was pondering what to do; he couldn't declare war on Austria with the Slav excuse as Franz Josef was aiding his various Slav Peoples against the Hungarians. However the Austrian Poles getting limited home rule was an abomination because it would spread to his own Poles and therefore had to be countered. He didn't mind cutting down the Hungarian part of the Austrian Empire but that was tricky at the moment.
However that German renunciation of Austria as leader of the German Confederation was interesting – perhaps he should play the Slavic card on the Prussians to counter his own unruly subjects especially as the Prussian Army was still rebuilding its Artillery since the defeat last year.
It had been sound politics to reforge relations with the King of Denmark; that build-up at Baku and the railways building was doing his country good. Soon he would be able to move troops fast to counter the Turk in the Caucasus – Kars would be within reach. And the news of Oil in Mosul and Persia surely he had to get there before the British.
The news from Denmark about Japan necessiated the building of the Transsiberian Railway as did a line into Turkestan.
He also well realized the need to build up in Poland to counter any future German aggression however now the situation there was a great help in keeping the Germans occupied. Damn the backdraw of a huge Empire.
