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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... ANTON VETTER OF DOGGENFELD, LIEUTENANT-FIELDMARSHAL AND COMMANDER OF THE AKMY OF THE SOUTH. Anton Vetter was born in 1805, at Pesth, in Hungary. His father, a veteran soldier of great merit, who had distinguished himself in the campaigns in the beginning of the present century, was Colonel and Commander of an Austrian regiment of Hussars. He had two sons, who, at an early age, entered the military service. The younger of the two was till lately Colonel and Commander of the 10th Austrian regiment of Hussars, known under the denomination of King William of Prussia's, and has now been promoted to the rank of an R. I. Major-General. Anton Vetter entered the Military Academy of Wiener-Neustadt, where he distinguished himself by his close application and brilliant talents, leaving the establishment in 1824, as R.I. Sub-Lieutenant for the army. After having acquainted himself with active service, and extended his varied acquirements, he was nominated Professor of Inferior and Superior Tactics at the Military S.'hool for C.'u'e.-; at Gratz, in Styria. In this situation he formed many a good officer for the Austrian army, gained a high reputation by his exemplary conduct, and was so rapidly promoted /or his merits that he never even remained in the same grade the time fixed by the established rules. In the year 1846, when "Vetter had been nominated Major, he took the Command of the third battalion of the regiment of infantry Archduke Michael of Russia No. 37 (a Hungarian regiment), which was stationed at Grosswardein in Hungary. Here intelligence of the political movements of the year 1848 reached him. The position in which the Royal Imperial army had been placed by the recent reforms in Hungary has been already explained in the biography of...