Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg was an Austrian and Czech diplomat and statesman in the Habsburg monarchy. A proponent of enlightened absolutism, he held the office of State Chancellor for about four decades and was responsible for the foreign policies during the reigns of Maria Theresa, Joseph II, and Leopold II. In 1764, he was elevated to the noble rank of a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire (Reichfürst).
Prince Kaunitz's Slavkov Castle
Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz, c. 1750 – c. 52
Prince Kaunitz-Rietberg (part of the Maria Theresa Monument in Vienna)
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The Royal Prussian Army served as the army of the Kingdom of Prussia. It became vital to the development of Prussia as a European power.
Attack of Prussian Infantry, 4 June 1745, by Carl Röchling
Frederick William, the Great Elector
Brandenburg troops of the infantry regiment of Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau in 1698, by Richard Knötel
Frederick William I, the Soldier-King, painting by Samuel Theodor Gericke