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The siege of Olomouc in 1758 and its contemporary reflection
Borovský, Jiří ; Stellner, František (advisor) ; Horčička, Václav (referee)
The main topic of this thesis is a Prussian campaign which took place at the beginning of the third year of the war. It was then that Moravia got into the centre of war efforts. First, the thesis analyzes events which preceded this campaign. Apart from that, situation on other battlefields and initial positions of both opponents (Austria and Prussia) are dealt with. Particular attention is paid to political and predominantly military-strategic reasons which made the King of prussia decide to attack Austria. The analysis of the military campaign itself is anchored in older sources written in German. Correspondence of the main partakers, especially of the King of Prussia and the supreme royal army command, is used to provide a disinterested contemporary view of the issue. Memoirs of contemporaries, just as a diary of a burgher which experienced the siege of Olomouc, are used to depict the situation as well.
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Military Importance Analysis of the Olomouc fortress in the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War
Borovský, Jiří ; Stellner, František (advisor) ; Županič, Jan (referee) ; Fiala, Jiří (referee)
Military Importance Analysis of the Olomouc fortress in the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War Jiří Borovský Abstract The thesis focuses on a role played by the city of Olomouc during the War of Austrian Succession (1740-1748) and the Seven Years' War (1756-1763). Between 1741-1742, almost all Moravian territory became an operational space for armies of the Prussian king Friedrich II. The Prussians took the city of Olomouc, too, and made it their most important military and logistic base within the occupied territories. As soon as the War of Austrian Succession was over, the fortress of Olomouc was rebuilt fundamentally: It took a mere decade of an immense building activity and Olomouc became the most modern bastion fortification in the whole Danubian Monarchy. Shortly after the works had been finished in 1758, the Prussians invaded Moravia again in order to seize the city again. The author analyses both Prussian campaigns to Moravia. The thesis mainly deals with the conditions that involved both Austrian and Prussian parties at the beginning of the war. It draws comparison between both armies involved, and between the actual results of the wars, too. In particular, the author focuses on the comparison of the role of the fortress during the two conflicts as well as on the differences...
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The siege of Olomouc in 1758 and its contemporary reflection
Borovský, Jiří ; Horčička, Václav (referee) ; Stellner, František (advisor)
The main topic of this thesis is a Prussian campaign which took place at the beginning of the third year of the war. It was then that Moravia got into the centre of war efforts. First, the thesis analyzes events which preceded this campaign. Apart from that, situation on other battlefields and initial positions of both opponents (Austria and Prussia) are dealt with. Particular attention is paid to political and predominantly military-strategic reasons which made the King of prussia decide to attack Austria. The analysis of the military campaign itself is anchored in older sources written in German. Correspondence of the main partakers, especially of the King of Prussia and the supreme royal army command, is used to provide a disinterested contemporary view of the issue. Memoirs of contemporaries, just as a diary of a burgher which experienced the siege of Olomouc, are used to depict the situation as well.
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