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Johann Graf Radetzky von Radetz (2 November 1766 – 5 January 1858) was a Czech nobleman and Austrian field marshal.
Joseph, Graf Radetzky was an Austrian field marshal and military reformer whose long record of victorious campaigns made him a national hero. Radetzky joined the Austrian army in 1784 and served in the Turkish War of 1787–92 and in the Low Countries in the first years of the French Revolutionary.
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Joseph Radetzky, Graf Radetzky de Radetz (yō´zĕf rädĕt´skē gräf rädĕt´skē də rä´dĕts), 1766–1858, Austrian field marshal. In the war of 1848–49 against Sardinia (see Risorgimento) he won the brilliant victories of Custozza (1848) and Novara (1849).
Johann Graf Radetzky von Radetz was a Czech nobleman and Austrian field marshal. He served as chief of the general staff in the Habsburg monarchy during the later period of the Napoleonic Wars and proved instrumental in the allied victory as one of the primary architects of the Trachenburg Plan and the Leipzig Campaign.
The public celebration of Field Marshal Count Joseph Radetzky (1766–1858) demonstrates how a powerful hero cult emerged within Austrian civil society after the latter’s victories in northern Italy during the revolutions of 1848–49.
Overview. Joseph Radetzky. (1766—1858) Quick Reference. (Trzebnitz, Bohemia, 1766–1858, Milan), was commissioned in the Austrian army in 1787, served as an instructor in Wels, and was Chief of Staff to Fürst K. P. Schwarzenberg at the ... From: Radetzky, Joseph in The Oxford Companion to German Literature » Subjects: Literature. Reference entries.
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The Austrian garrison at Milan was well equipped and commanded by an experienced general, Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, who despite being over 80 years old, was energetic and rigid. Radetzky had no intention of yielding to the uprising.
