Word: galicia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conquered Galicia for Austria, overran Serbia. In 1916 he occupied Rumania. In 1917 he smashed the Russian armies, opened the way to the Black Sea. Only the collapse of the Western Front and the Armistice stopped him. Though a Feldmarschall, he never wore a general's uniform and pickelhaube (spiked helmet) but always the broad black fur cap of the Death's Head Hussars, whose colonel-in-chief he was. He never, even for the sake of camouflage, rode anything but the whitest of horses. Unlike Ludendorff, who now is going crazy, he never proclaimed himself a God-inspired military...
...Polish troops ruthlessly suppressed strikes and anti-Pilsudski riots in Eastern Galicia...
Counter threats. Militant "anti-Ignatz" demonstrations throughout Poland subsequently became so serious that President Moscicki was obliged to proclaim a state of emergency in Lemberg and a state of siege in Tarnopol, where rebellious Ukranians rioted and demanded the separation of East Galicia from Poland...
...Record: 1) 1915-Conquered Galicia and its oil fields for Austria. As commander of the 11th German Army Corps, campaigned against and forced the abandonment to Germany of Warsaw and all Russian Poland. Transferred to the Serbian front, destroyed Serbia as a War factor and opened the road along which Germany poured munitions into Turkey. 2) 1916-Commanding the 9th and 11th Army Corps, operated successfully against Rumania, putting Rumanian resources of wheat and oil at Germany's disposal. 3) 1917-Directed the Teutonic offensive against Russia, which opened the way to the Black Sea on the collapse...
Then one day at Sarajevo a bomb blew Francis Ferdinand to bits, and von Hoetzendorf went forth to war. He promptly lost Galicia to the Russians and his prestige waned. But he planned the campaign which resulted in its recapture, and was given the Order of Merit by the Kaiser when Lemberg fell to his advance...