3-082-302 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Archduke Albrecht of Austria, 1895. 'At the age of twenty-three, Friedrich Rudolph Albrecht was raised to the rank of major-general...In Marshal Radetzky's Italian campaign of 1849 the young Archduke displayed a courage and enthusiasm which secured for him the Maria Theresa Order...He was Commander-in-Chief of the 3rd Army Corps, and Military and Civil Governor of Hungary...he commanded the 8th Army Corps at Vicenza, being promoted to the rank of field marshal three years later. But it was as the victorious commander at Custozza, in 1866, that the Archduke earned the nation's gratitude and put the seal upon his reputation as a general. Assuming...the entire command of the Austrian army, he inspired it with fresh valour...He had been Inspector-General of the Army since 1869, and never diminished his remarkable interest in military matters, on which he wrote several books...he travelled over a large part of Europe, and kept himself au courant with military developments all over the world...He was extremely wealthy, and also extremely generous. Besides owning great estates in different districts of the empire, he possessed large ironworks, which yielded him a very high revenue, much of which was annually distributed in gifts'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.