Excerpt from The Works of Louise M???hlbach: In Eighteen Volumes The year 1809 had come; but the war against France so intensely longed for by all Austria, had not yet broken out, and the people and the army were vainly waiting for the war cry of their sovereign, the Emperor Francis. It is true, not a few great things had been accomplished in the course of the past year: Austria had armed, organized the militia, strength ened her fortresses, and filled her magazines; but the emperor still hesitated to take the last and ...
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Excerpt from The Works of Louise M???hlbach: In Eighteen Volumes The year 1809 had come; but the war against France so intensely longed for by all Austria, had not yet broken out, and the people and the army were vainly waiting for the war cry of their sovereign, the Emperor Francis. It is true, not a few great things had been accomplished in the course of the past year: Austria had armed, organized the militia, strength ened her fortresses, and filled her magazines; but the emperor still hesitated to take the last and most decisive step by crown ing his military preparations. With a formal declaration of war. No one looked for this declaration of war more intensely than the emperor's second brother, the Archduke John, a young man of scarcely twenty-seven. He had been the soul of all the preparations which, since the summer of 1808, had been made throughout Austria; he had conceived the plan of organizing the militia and the reserves; and had drawn up the proclamation of the 12th of May, 1808, by which all able bodied Austrians were called upon to take up arms. But this exhausted his powers; he could organize the army, but could not say to it, Take the field against the enemy! The em peror alone could utter this word, and he was silent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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