Austro-Hungarian campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878
The campaign to establish Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina lasted from 29 July to 20 October 1878 against the local resistance fighters supported by the Ottoman Empire. The Austro-Hungarian Army entered the country in two large movements: one from the north into Bosnia, and another from the south into Herzegovina. A series of battles in August culminated in the fall of Sarajevo on the 19th after a day of street-to-street fighting. In the hilly countryside a guerrilla campaign continued until the last rebel stronghold fell after their leader was captured.
Northern Austro-Hungarian camp near Mostar, painted by Alexander Ritter von Bensa and Adolf Obermüller
Infantry Regiment No. 17 crossing the Sava by Karl Pippich (1905)
Battle of Jajce, painting by Karl Pippich
Illustration of Hadži Lojo preaching insurrection before the gates of Sarajevo
The Austro-Hungarian Army, also known as the Imperial and Royal Army, was the principal ground force of Austria-Hungary from 1867 to 1918. It consisted of three organisations: the Common Army, the Imperial-Royal Landwehr and the Royal Hungarian Honvéd.
Coronation of Emperor Franz Joseph I, after the signing and translation of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867
Austro-Hungarian soldiers resting in a trench
Austro-Hungarian POWs in Russia, 1915; photo by Prokudin-Gorskii
Corps areas in the Austro-Hungarian Army