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Name: Austrian Empire (Military Occupation)

Type: Polity

Start: 1809 AD

End: 1815 AD

Parent: austria

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Territories militarly occupied by the Austrian Empire.

Establishment


  • March 1809: In 1809, during the Napoleonic Wars, the French forces led by Marshal Marmont were defeated and driven back to Knin and Zadar by the Austrian Empire under the command of Archduke John of Austria. This marked the beginning of the Austrian military occupation of the territory.
  • April 1809: The Austrian advance guard, led by Archduke Charles of Austria, beat back the Bavarians, commanded by Marshal Lefebvre, near Landshut in 1809 during the War of the Fifth Coalition. This victory led to the Austrian Empire occupying the territory.
  • April 1809: After the Battle of Raszyn on 19 April, where Poniatowski's Polish troops brought an Austrian force twice their number to a standstill (but neither side defeated the other decisively), the Polish forces nonetheless retreated, allowing the Austrians to occupy the Duchy's capital, Warsaw.
  • June 1809: The Austrian main army under Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph, unable to push further on the left bank, and in danger of having its supply lines cut by Poniatowski, was forced to abandon the siege of Toruń.
  • June 1809: The Austrians abandoned Warsaw on 1 June.
  • July 1809: Battle of Gefrees. After taking the capital, Dresden, and pushing back an army under the command of Napoleon's brother, Jérôme Bonaparte, the Austrians were effectively in control of all of Saxony.
  • October 1809: The Treaty of Schönbrunn was signed between France and Austria at Schönbrunn Palace near Vienna.
  • October 1809: The Illyrian Provinces (in French: Gouvernement des Provinces Illyriennes) were a French governorate of the Napoleonic era, a sort of exclave of metropolitan France, created with the union of the territories ceded by the Austrian Empire and the Italian Kingdom Napoleonic empire to the French Empire as a result of the Treaty of Schönbrunn (October 14, 1809).
  • October 1809: The Treaty of Schönbrunn was signed between France and Austria at Schönbrunn Palace near Vienna. West Galicia was ceded to the Duchy of Warsaw.
  • Chronology


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    1. French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars


    Were a series of conflicts between France and several European monarchies between 1792 and 1815. They encompass first the French Revolutionary Wars against the newly declared French Republic and from 1803 onwards the Napoleonic Wars against First Consul and later Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. They include the Coalition Wars as a subset: seven wars waged by various military alliances of great European powers, known as Coalitions, against Revolutionary France - later the First French Empire - and its allies.

    1.1.War of the Fifth Coalition

    Was a conflict between a colition of European monarchies and Napoleon's French Empire.


    1.1.1.Dalmatian Campaign (1809)

    Was the Dalmatian theatre of the War of the Fifth Coalition.


    1.1.2.Danube Campaign (War of the Fifth Coalition)

    Was a French military campaign in the Danube area during the War of the Fifth Coalition. The French forces defeated the Austrian army and occupied Vienna.


    1.1.3.Austro-Polish War

    Was a war between the Austrian Empire and the Napoleon-allied Duchy of Warsaw.


    1.1.4.Treaty of Schönbrunn

    Was the treaty that ended the War of the Fifth Coalition.


    1.2.War of the Seventh Coalition (The Hundred Days)

    Napoleon escaped the exile he had been forced after the War of the Sixth Coalition and reorganized the French army. He was defeated by a coalition that included Great Britain, Austria, Prussia and Russia and sent into permanent exile on the island of Saint Helena.

    1.2.1.Neapolitan War

    Was a conflict between the Napoleonic Kingdom of Naples and the Austrian Empire during the War of the Seventh Coalition. Naples, which was still ruled by the Napoleonic general Joachim Murat, decided to side with Napoleon. The Austrian won the war and reinstated Ferdinand IV as King of Naples and Sicily.

    1.2.1.1.Austrian counterattack (Neapolitan War)

    Was the Austrian invasion of Italy during the Neapolitan War.

  • May 1815: By 12 May, Bianchi, who was now in command of both his and Neipperg's corps, had taken the town of L'Aquila.
  • May 1815: Nugent intercepted Murat at San Germano (now Cassino).
  • May 1815: The Austrian armies united near Calvi and began the march on Naples.
  • May 1815: Neapolitan Generals Pepe and Carrascosa sued for peace and concluded the Treaty of Casalanza with the Austrians, bringing the war to an end.

  • 1.2.1.2.King Ferdinand restored

    On 23 May, at the end of the Neaopolitan War, the main Austrian army entered Naples and restored King Ferdinand to the Neapolitan throne.

  • May 1815: The main Austrian army entered Naples and restored King Ferdinand to the Neapolitan throne.

  • Disestablishment


  • May 1815: By 12 May, Bianchi, who was now in command of both his and Neipperg's corps, had taken the town of L'Aquila.
  • May 1815: Nugent intercepted Murat at San Germano (now Cassino).
  • May 1815: The Austrian armies united near Calvi and began the march on Naples.
  • May 1815: Neapolitan Generals Pepe and Carrascosa sued for peace and concluded the Treaty of Casalanza with the Austrians, bringing the war to an end.
  • May 1815: The main Austrian army entered Naples and restored King Ferdinand to the Neapolitan throne.
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