The Empress is based on the collapse of the Austrian Empire, marked by internal strife, war from outside, and the subsequent ...

The Revolutions of 1848 were shocking but hardly unexpected ... The Prussian king fled Berlin; the Austrian emperor escaped from Vienna. Between February and March, powers that had seemed so ...

Archduke Johann of Austria (1782 — 1859 ... But while the discussions went on in Frankfurt in 1848, the opponents of the revolution were able to mobilize their forces. Even when National ...