The defeat at Königgrätz was a bitter blow for the Habsburg Empire. As a result Austria lost Venetia to Italy and handed the leading role among the German states to Prussia.
The systematic promotion of the military began under Maria Theresa and was to make it in the following decades into a commanding instrument of power. The wars with revolutionary France marked a new development in militarism, which also affected the Habsburg Monarchy.
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