The Austrian Army (3) 1740-80 : Specialist Troops
Contributors: Bill Younghusband (Illustrator)
Series: Men-At-Arms Series, 280
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: March 13, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781855325272
Subjects: History; Weapons & equipment; Military - General; History - Military / War; History: World; Austria; History / Military / General
First sentence: Until at least the latter years of Maria Theresa's reign, the Austrian artillery was acknowledged to be second to none in Europe; and it must have been no coincidence that Jean Baptiste de Gribeauval, who went on and so radically reformed the French artillery after he became inspector of artillery in 1776, had spent the Seven Years' War on attachment to the Austrian army from the French.