Archduke Albrecht

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Archduke Albrecht Friedrich Rudolf Dominik of Austria, Duke of Teschen, was an Austrian Habsburg general. He was the grandson of Emperor Leopold II and one of the chief military advisors of Emperor Francis Joseph I. As Inspector General for 36 years, he was an old-fashioned bureaucrat who largely controlled the Austro-Hungarian Army and delayed modernization. He was honored with the rank of field marshal in the armies of Austria-Hungary (1863) and Germany (1893).

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Battles (2)

• 1604

  Siege of Ostend

  Eighty Years' War · Spanish Empire

• 1866

  Battle of Custoza

  Third Italian War of Independence · Austrian Empire