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    The Hofkriegsrat (or Aulic War Council, sometimes Imperial War Council) established in 1556 was the central military administrative authority of the Habsburg...
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    Imperial general during the Great Turkish War, and President of the Hofkriegsrat. By birth, he was a member of the House of Starhemberg. He was born in...
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    little action. Hohenzollern sat as President in the deliberations of the Hofkriegsrat (Aulic Council) from 1825 to 1830. He became a Feldmarschall on 18 September...
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    the Battle of Saint Gotthard. Afterwards, he became president of the Hofkriegsrat and briefly returned as supreme commander of the Imperial forces during...
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    otherwise maintained the separation of command functions between the Hofkriegsrat and his field commanders. In the later years of his reign he limited...
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    division in 1805 and an army corps in 1809. He became a member of the Hofkriegsrat (Aulic Council) in 1811. He was the Proprietor (Inhaber) of an Austrian...
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    started to reform the Austrian army in 1801 by taking away power from the Hofkriegsrat, the military-political council responsible for the armed forces. Charles...
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    innovations of his own such as the Raitkammer (collections office) and the Hofkriegsrat, conceived to counter the threat from the Ottoman Empire, while also...
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    war and contributed as little as possible. Archduke Charles and the Hofkriegsrat sent 50,000 in two corps to Italy under General der Kavallerie Archduke...
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    commander of the city of Vienna, imperial field marshal and president of the Hofkriegsrat. He was the son of Ferrante de Gazzuolo and Isabella Gonzaga, and thus...
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  • 1715) was an Austrian diplomat, Field marshal and President of the Hofkriegsrat. Heinrich Franz came from the powerful House of Mansfeld, and was the...
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    bis zur Auflösung (Bamberg, 1912) Imperial Austrian Army (1806–1867) Hofkriegsrat List of Lieutenant Field Marshals of the Holy Roman Empire André Corvisier...
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    commanded army corps. At the time of his death, he presided over the Hofkriegsrat, the Austrian Council of War. While fighting against the Turks, Gyulay...
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    diplomat in the imperial service. He was Field Marshal, president of the Hofkriegsrat, and the representative of the Emperor in the Perpetual Diet of Regensburg...
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    to no avail—they didn't respect any officers."[citation needed] The Hofkriegsrat of Vienna immediately took measures: they strengthened the Habsburg troops...
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    the imperial forces. In 1762 he had been appointed president of the Hofkriegsrat. By order of Maria Theresa, a monument to his memory was erected by Balthasar...
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    started to reform the Austrian army in 1801 by taking away power from the Hofkriegsrat, the military-political council responsible for decision-making in the...
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    Italy, save for a handful in the Maritime Alps and around Genoa. But the Hofkriegsrat did not choose to take advantage, and sent Suvorov with his Austrian...
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  • imperial general during the Great Turkish War and President of the Hofkriegsrat Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg (1899–1956), Austrian nationalist politician...
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    the Army of the Upper Rhine, he was recalled to Vienna to serve on the Hofkriegsrat in 1795. In late 1796 he took over command of the army that was fighting...
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  • was an Imperial Field Marshal and from 1739 to 1762, President of the Hofkriegsrat (Imperial War Council). Johann Joseph Philipp Graf Harrach came from...
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    the Carbonari revolt in the Savoyard state. He became president of the Hofkriegsrat in 1831, but would die only a few months later in Vienna. Chapman, Tim...
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    January 1650, Vienna) was an Imperial Field Marshal and president of the Hofkriegsrat. As a young man, he fought in Hungary under Giorgio Basta for Rudolf...
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    Major General in 1830 and Fieldmarshal-Lieutenant and member of the Hofkriegsrat in 1835. In 1848 he commanded the first Armeekorps in Italy, and became...
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  • Hermann of Baden-Baden, Imperial field marshal and president of the Hofkriegsrat (b. 1628) Henry Maurice, Welsh priest (b. 1647) November 7 – Pieter Cornelisz...
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    forces, in the 1708 Battle of Trencsén. As the conflict rumbled on, the Hofkriegsrat president Prince Eugene of Savoy appointed the loyal Hungarian Field...
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    populations, and Vojvodina, containing a substantial Serb population. Hofkriegsrat-controlled Military Frontier separated the Kingdoms of Croatia and Slavonia...
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    The ministry was the successional institution of the royal Bavarian Hofkriegsrat (court war council, founded in 1620) and its follow-on institutions that...
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    joint action however, as following the strategic plans of the Austrian Hofkriegsrat under Baron Thugut, Charles had been ordered to move his main command...
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  • Moritz von Lacy (son of Peter Lacy) who rose to be president of the Hofkriegsrat from 1766 to 1774. Other famous Irish-Austrian generals included William...
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