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War Begins: 28 July 1914

100 years ago today, Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary issued a declaration to his people. The Emperor, seeing Serbian aggression as intolerable, chose war. On 28 July 1914 Austria-Hungary found itself in a state of war against Serbia. The First World War had begun.   “To my people!” Emperor Franz Joseph’s declaration of war. Bad Ischl, 28 […]