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PRINCE ALFRED WINDISCHGRATZ (1787-1862)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 710 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PRINCE See also:ALFRED See also:WINDISCHGRATZ (1787-1862)  , See also:Austrian See also:field-See also:marshal, entered the Austrian See also:army in 1804, participated in all the See also:wars against See also:Napoleon and fought with distinction at See also:Leipzig and in the See also:campaign of 1814 . In the following years of See also:peace he held successive commands in See also:Prague, being appointed See also:head of the army in Bohemia in 1840 . Having gained a reputation as a See also:champion of energetic See also:measures against revolution he was called upon to suppress the insurrection of See also:March 1848 in See also:Vienna, but finding himself See also:ill-supported by the ministers he speedily threw up his See also:post . Having returned to Prague he there showed firmness in quelling an armed outbreak of the See also:Czech separatists (See also:June 1848) . Upon the recrudescence of revolt in Vienna he was summoned at the head of a large army and reduced the See also:city by a formal See also:siege (Oct..20-29) . Appointed to the See also:chief command against the Hungarian rebels he gained some See also:early successes and reoccupied See also:Budapest (See also:Jan . 1849), but by his slowness in pursuit he allowed the enemy to rally in See also:superior See also:numbers and to prevent an effective concentration of the Austrian forces . In See also:April 1849 he was relieved of his command and henceforth rarely appeared again in public See also:life . See See also:Furst Windischgreitz . Eine Lebens-Skizze . Aus den Papieren eines Zeitgenossen der See also:Sturm-Jahre 1848 and 1849 (2nd ed., Leipzig, 1898) .

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