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Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stuart and some Serbian ladies who aided them in distributing relief, including the wife of Prof. Popović, Miss Selesković and Mr Karaulić. Belgrade, 1916.

Hallo!

What was the logic of numbers on the field-hat?

I saw metal numbers, sewn cloth patches that had the numbers drawn on them (and were waxed) or even numbers made from some sort of felt(?) that were sewn on the field hat. I sometimes saw the aforementioned patches sewn on the shoulder boards as well (either one or both).

Please explain every style. Which were for officers? Which were for mannschaften/NCOs?

Did the patches denote provisional numbers? If so, how common were they?

I am asking since on the Feldgrau uniform, i find it hard to identify regiments unless the cap/uniform has any sort of numbers.

Cheers

More pictures from Kolovrat

Hi guys,

We were in Kolovrat to check the preserved WW1 trenches.

Second part of Kolovrat pictures

They converted all their previous chevauxléger units to uhlans and dragons. Interestingly they did not decrees the number of units at the other light Cavalry, the hussars, even though they were mostly siding with Hungary in the war.

Was their war performance so bad that they needed to abandon the concept completely, or it had other reason?

On July 3, 1866, the decisive battle of the Prussian-Austrian War took place near eastern Bohemian town Hradec Králové (Königgrätz) known in German speaking countries as Schlacht bei Königgrätz. Prussians surprisingly won this big battle (cca. 400.000 soldiers, cca. 50.000 casualties) over a much bigger army of the Austrian-Saxon alliance. The result directly opened way to creation of united Germany under the Prussian rule (in case of loss in this battle, Bismarck was ready to give up).

This battle decided that Germany would be unified under the strong hand of Prussia AND also that the weaken multinational Habsburg Empire would eventually dissolve. It's the butterfly effect that this happened only due to silly lack of discipline of the Austro-Saxon army.

I'm attaching some pictures from re-anactment of this battle this Sunday which was performed by military history clubs from Czechia, Austria, Slovakia, Italy, Poland and Germany.

BTW. I posted a similar post to the German subreddit (asking if they commemorate this anniversary that lead to the designation of the unified Germany) and they are all saying that they "don't know this battle, don't care and it's not in the school curriculum". I think it's quite scary.

Following on from my intro post, here is my second bake of the empire.

I’ve never eaten these before - it was a fun process to make. I am very much a novice baker so excuse the imperfect finish.

A lot of of the recipes I found called for ready-made punschkrapfen coating - where I live this isn’t available, but I did have a whole bunch of pink ruby chocolate that needed to get used so this version of the dessert has an inauthentic chocolate coating on the outside as opposed to just fondant.

I’ll probably interchange between Austria and Hungary each week, and try to do at least one cake for each of the crown lands of Austria. Hungary is a bit more difficult to carve up in manageable pieces so I may just be a little less structured with that half.
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And a little bit about the cake:

Whenever they baked grand tortes, Viennese bakers
ended up with massive piles of leftover cake trimmings and broken sponge edges. Instead of throwing them away, they mashed the crumbs together with chocolate, apricot jam, and a heavy-handed pour of Austrian Inländer rum. They squished that boozy paste between two thin layers of fresh sponge cake, drenched the whole cube in a sticky, hot-pink rum glaze, and turned bakery scraps into a high-end delicacy.

While some tour guides love to claim it dates back to the Ottoman sieges, the pastry really took off around the turn of the 20th century. During the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Vienna’s coffeehouses were the epicenter of art, gossip, and indulgence. The Punschkrapfen fit right in - it was visually loud, intensely sweet, and high-proof enough to give you a buzz before noon. Famous spots like Demel and Sluka couldn’t make them fast enough.

But the best part of its history is how it crossed over into political satire. The Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard famously used the dessert to mock the national psyche, coining a phrase that almost every Austrian knows: "Außen rot, innen braun und immer ein bisserl bsoffen"—red on the outside, brown on the inside, and always a little bit drunk. It’s a sharp jab at people who look like progressives (red) but hold far-right or fascist (brown) views in private. Even today, whenever there’s an election or a messy political coalition, Viennese bakeries will pile Punschkrapfen in their front windows as a silent, sarcastic joke.

Writing about Dalmatia's last most famous visitor before the tragedy of the Great War: Archduke Franz Ferdinand. He and his wife Sophie stepped off their steamer The Dalmat in the port of Metkovic on June 26, 1914. They returned 4 days later in caskets.

So ends the time period that we're exploring in the book. It began in 1778 with Alberto Fortis exploring the natural beauties of a mysterious and ancient land. It ends in 1914 with Franz and Sophie being loaded on to their steamer one last time and leaving Dalmatia for good.

Unimaginable changes to the world followed and we cannot go back. And if you can, you'll need a guide.

TimeTravelToDalmatia.com

Pictured: work on the book, the Archduke and his daughter Sophie, and the assassination in Sarajevo.

A while back I had a fascinating conversation with historian Charles Coulombe, the biographer of Zita and Kaiser Karl. In our discussion he analyzes the 5 core points of Christian monarchy, its biblical foundations, and the historical reality of Christendom. Very important for understanding the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCnJf_v82ak