Wilhelm von Tegetthoff
✓ Source-basedrisingAustro-Hungarian admiral (1827-1871)
Vice-Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff was an Austrian naval officer and politician who served in the Second Schleswig War and Third Italian War of Independence. He is best known for his victory over an Italian fleet at the Battle of Lissa in 1866.
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1880 painting by Anton Romako of Tegetthoff (centre) at the Battle of Lissa
Memorial to Tegetthoff in Vienna
Memorial to Tegetthoff in Graz
The uniformed portrait of the Admiral Tegetthoff on the obverse of the 1877 medal by Tautenhayn, commemorating his monument at Pula
Pula, Istria, the reverse of that medal showing his monument erected by Carl Kundmann
S.M.S. Erzherzog Ferdinand Max coin featuring Rear-Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff.Awards 1
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Archduke Eugen of AustriaAlso won Military Order of Maria Theresa
Aleksey Petrovich YermolovAlso won Military Order of Maria Theresa
Mikhail MiloradovichAlso won Military Order of Maria Theresa
Ludwig Yorck von WartenburgAlso won Military Order of Maria Theresa
Matvey Ivanovich PlatovAlso won Military Order of Maria Theresa
Ivan PaskevichAlso won Military Order of Maria TheresaAbout this person
Vice-Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff was an Austrian naval officer and politician who served in the Second Schleswig War and Third Italian War of Independence. He is best known for his victory over an Italian fleet at the Battle of Lissa in 1866. The historian Antonio Schmidt-Brentano argued that von Tegetthoff was one of the most able naval officers of the 19th century due to his tactical inventiveness, sense of command and inspirational leadership.
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