Word: hoetzendorf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mergentheim in Wurttemburg, Germany, a man of 73, busily at work writing the fifth volume of his memories sank beneath the pale hand of anaemia and last week he died. So passed Count Franz Konrad von Hoetzendorf...
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...
When Italy entered the War von Hoetzendorf was made Field Marshal and given command of the Italian front. He served there without much success until 1918 when Field Marshal von Koevess replaced...
Died. Field Marshal Baron Franz Konrad von Hoetzendorf, 73, Chief of the Imperial Austrian Staff in the War in Wurttemberg, or anaemia (see AUSTRIA, Page...
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