From Slankamen to Zenta: The Austrian War Effort in the East during the 1690s

Tür:

Kitap Bölümü

Yazar:

Lothar Höbelt

Yayın yılı:

2019

Yayıncı:

BRILL

Once the Sea Powers had shouldered most of the burden of the Nine Years War in the West, the Habsburgs sent three fourths of their army back to the Eastern Front by 1691. Their main goal, though, continued to be defensive: They did not plan to expand into the Balkans but hold on to their recent gains, above all to Transylvania. This is why Temesvar, the fortress threatening the approaches to Transylvania, ranked higher on their list of priorities than Belgrade. After an almost accidental siege of Belgrade in 1693 and a low point of the war effort in 1694, the Elector Augustus of Saxony as a new commander in the East twice tried to conquer Temesvar in 1695 and 1696. With the Ottomans making best possible use of their interior lines of communications and their control of the Danube, both attempts ended in failure (battles of Lugos and on the Becva). Even when the peace of Rijswijk and Eugene’s victory at Zenta in 1697 seemed to open a window of opportunity in the East, the Habsburgs were far more occupied by the looming struggle for the Spanish inheritance than by the prospect of enlarging their Empire in the East.

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