The author has chronologically reconstructed and translated the original German text of the war diary of the 71st Infantry Regiment for the period from November 4, 1916, to February 13, 1917, into Slovak. The critical situation on the front, prompted by the 9th Sochi offensive, necessitated the transfer of the regiment from the Russian to the Italian front. This journey took 2.5 days; upon arrival, the regiment was immediately deployed to the frontline. Equipped with 13 machine guns, it achieved fire superiority in the defence of Kostanjevica na Krasu. The Italian advance was halted, the front stabilized, and the regiment was relieved after two days. In the subsequent months, it conducted three ambush operations. The paper includes archived battle sketches, proposals for awards (Adamica, Turanec, Dzurek), and reports on the ambushes (Schariczer, Šarić). The war diary describes the tactics of deep defence within the divisional section, the rotation of units, and the relocation of reserves. The author cross-references this information with the memoirs of Jozef Turanec.
The author of the study deals with the subsidiary district of Trenčín and allocation into the battalions of the 71st infantry regiment, which was a part of the Austrian Imperial Army in Veneto in 1860-1866. He states that a military and logistic background originated in Trenčín, used for supplementing the battalions with the crew from the county of Trenčín, Turiec and Orava. Within the Rothkirch Brigade, the battalions from Veneto were reassigned to the unit of Benedek’s Northern Army. The brigade was covering the retreat of the Austrian forces, with open battles bursting at Tovačov, where the Trenčín regiment recorded high losses. In the 1870’s, the regiment consisted of six battalions included in the so called line (Linien-Regiment) and reserve (Reserve-Regiment) regiment. The occupation of Bosna in 1878 was attended by the soldiers from the reserve regiment and the pacification of the Bosna resistance (1879-1882) was contributed significantly by the soldiers of the 71st infantry regiment.
The author deals with the general situation on the frontline in the autumn of 1917, when the Italian troops retreated behind the Piava River after the defeat at Kobarida. In the spring of 1918, the Austro-Hungarian key command of the Army started preparing the new offensive, starting from 15 June 1918. Within the 14th infantry division, the operation was also attended by the 71st infantry regiment, where a lot of Slovaks were fighting. Its activity was captured in the war journal deposited in the Military Archive in Vienna. The published part of the journal is delimited by the dates of 15 June to 22 June 1918, when the Austro-Hungarian units retreated after the failure of the offensive.
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