"Instrument of War First Edition - mistakes?" Topic
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grenadier corporal  | 28 Aug 2022 10:34 p.m. PST |
Just started reading IoW – the first edition which had to wait quite a long time since the purchase …
Prof. Duffy has my greatest respect – excellent information and very readable.
But after a few pages I encountered some surprising mistakes. Sopron is given as "Wieselburg" (should be Ödenburg), IR 3 is titled "Erzherzog Carl" (some 50 years in advance) and called a Hungarian regiment (which it never was, although being stationed in Hungary for some time and fighting there quite often).
These and a few other things do not add to my reading pleasure. There could be false information I am not aware of.
Can anyone tell me if those mistakes have been corrected in the second edition? |
| RittervonBek | 29 Aug 2022 2:17 a.m. PST |
Hi, the Inhaber of IR 3 was Charles of Lorraine, Carl Lothringen. So very much the correct title. IR2 is Erzherzog Karl and is Hungarian. Odenburg and Sopron are the same place, a city in the Hungarian Sopron district. Wieselburg is in Austria proper. |
| grenadier corporal | 29 Aug 2022 2:37 a.m. PST |
Then only the number is wrong.
BTW – Carl Lothringen was no archduke.
The mistake was to give "Wieselburg" (and not Ödenburg) as "Sopron". |
| RittervonBek | 29 Aug 2022 3:55 a.m. PST |
Sorry I was not clear: IR2 is Erzherzog Karl, a Hungarian regiment IR3 is Carl Lotharingen, a lower Austrian regiment |
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