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Colonel Clark describes the Austrian army as large but inferior in physical and intellectual quality to English and German armies, with variations by region and a servile demeanor due to despotic government.
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The Austrian army is large and imposing, but its material does not compare favorably with that of the English and German armies, physically or intellectually, except in some favorite or select battalions. The soldiers of Austria proper are superior in appearance, more elegant and cleanly in dress, and more soldierly in bearing than those from Bohemia, Hungary and other parts of the Austrian empire, but there is a servile manner about most of them which must be the result of the despotic character of the government, rather than good military discipline. Some soldiers from the Austrian provinces are so poorly and cheaply uniformed, so untidy in person and so very slouchy and unsoldierly in carriage and bearing that "a looker on in Vienna" is obliged to doubt the military efficiency and success of an army composed in part of material of that character.-Col. Clark in New York World
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The Austrian army is large and imposing, but its material does not compare favorably with that of the English and German armies, physically or intellectually, except in some favorite or select battalions. The soldiers of Austria proper are superior in appearance, more elegant and cleanly in dress, and more soldierly in bearing than those from Bohemia, Hungary and other parts of the Austrian empire, but there is a servile manner about most of them which must be the result of the despotic character of the government, rather than good military discipline. Some soldiers from the Austrian provinces are so poorly and cheaply uniformed, so untidy in person and so very slouchy and unsoldierly in carriage and bearing that a looker on in Vienna is obliged to doubt the military efficiency and success of an army composed in part of material of that character.