STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 632, sig. 109-4/380 (damaged)

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Abl.1/2 1.) According to Ferdinand - Heydrich , according to Koniáš - Frank . Ferdinand II is meant. (b. 9 July 1578 in Graz, c. 15.Feber l637 in Vienna ), i.e. that Ferdinand, whom the Bohemian estates had solemnly dismissed on 27 August l6l9. After the troops had again besieged Vienna together with the troops of Bethlen of Hungary for a short time, the Bohemian states elected King Fried-rich of the Palatinate, while the Hungarian states united their votes on Bethlen Gabor. While Bethlen had been dealt with through negotiations, Ferdinand II opened the door. the war against the estates, by uniting with Maximilian from Bavaria and the Elector of Saxony. It came to the well-known strict criminal court. Nevertheless, his best advisors had exhorted him to indulge, he executed on 2l June 162l 27 representatives of the Bohemian estates at the Altstädter Ring (German and Czech). In 1627, he issued the new Land Order, with which an absolute regime was established in the countries of the Bohemian Crown. Koniáš gives an explanation of the shape and activity of the adjacent report. 2.) Mahnmal .... The exact translation reads: "In our country, at the Austerlitz memorial, the words of the biblical prophet are written on red granite with golden writing "My murdered will rise from the dead". So it is around the well-known monument to the battle at Austerlice, Czech Slavkov. Here Napoleon I won on 2l December 1805. the united armies of the Oesterreicher and Russians, before the Austrian troops of Archduke Karl could reach the battlefield. It is called the Three Emperor's Battle or the World Battle of Austerlitz.