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Landwehr, or Landeswehr, is a German language term used in referring to certain national armies, or militias found in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe. In different context it refers to
Soldier of the Prussian Landwehr, 1815
Estonian member of the Baltic Landeswehr
Austro-Hungarian Army
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The Austro-Hungarian Army, also known as the Imperial and Royal Army, was the principal ground force of Austria-Hungary from 1867 to 1918, one of the two branches of the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces.
Landwehr
…Baluzii Capitularia, as quoted in Henry Hallam's Middle Ages, i. 262, 10th edition. The Austrian Landwehr was one of three components that made up the ground forces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire between 1868 and 1918, and it was composed of recruits from the Cisleithanian parts of the empire. Intended as a national…
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