Original scientific paper
The Pest of the Hussar Horses in Slavonija and Srijem at the Beginning of the 19th Century
Stjepan Sršan
; State Archive in Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Abstract
Austrian army was stationated in Slavonia and Srijem after the liberation from Turkish rule in the late 17th century. Disposition, facilities, construction, maintenance and food supply were performed by Virovitica, Pozega and Srijem County and through theirs district judges and village dukes after the restitution in 1745th. The peasants were obliged to give certain portions of hay and oats, participate in work and other needs of the army, what represented to them a considerable burden. In addition, the frequent floods and crop failures came, so to sustain the army was quite a problem. Foreign military did not have much understanding toward the local population although the government tried everything to alleviate that conditions.
This paper presents the investigation of a large horse deaths of hussar regiment prince of Liechtenstein, who resided in Slavonia and Srijem 1817-1829. During that time died about 1900 horses. Army was complaining about bad sanitary conditions and nutrition which the peasants gave. Heterogeneous military-civilian commission on the field reviewed all sites, buildings, water, food and supplies of that regiments, and made their proposals. Catch the eye especially large and frequent fiers planted under the barracks. Instigators were generally not known. County claimed that this was't done by local people, since in that way that would hurt themselves, because they support all the facilities. In this article very interesting are also the commission statements about the health conditions, barns, buildings and generally supply of the army in Slavonija and Srijem in the early 19 th century. Work is based on the archives, with the reference to the report of the royal commission.
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105177
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Publication date:
8.7.2013.
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