Archduke John of Austria
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Archduke John of Austria, a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, was an Austrian field marshal and imperial regent of the short-lived German Empire during the Revolutions of 1848.
Portrait by Leopold Kupelwieser, 1828
Archduke John of Austria, c. 1795
Anna Plochl
Election of Erzherzog Johann von Österreich 1848 as Imperial Regent (Reichsverweser) by the Frankfurt Parliament. Medal by Karl Radnitzky, obverse.
Battle of Hohenlinden
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The Battle of Hohenlinden was fought on 3 December 1800 during the French Revolutionary Wars. A French army under Jean Victor Marie Moreau won a decisive victory over an Austrian and Bavarian force le
Archduke John of Austria
…assume the position. John was only 18 at the time. He showed personal bravery in the War of the Second Coalition, but his troops were crushed at the Battle of Hohenlinden on 3 December. Demoralized by defeat, the army nearly disintegrated in the subsequent retreat, which was only stopped by an armistice arranged on 22…
The Battle of Hohenlinden Henri Frédéric Schopin, 1836
Archduke John
Jean Victor Moreau
Paul Grenier