He was quickly told of his error and stopped in order to turn the vehicle round.
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Unfortunately no one had informed the driver of the new instructions and he turned down Franz Joseph street, part of the original route. However the rest of the visit, including a visit to the museum, was cancelled and the route back was changed. When they arrived at the town hall the Mayor started to greet them but was interrupted by Ferdinand who said, “I come her as your guest and you greet me with bombs!” The Mayor finished his speech and the Archduke praised the crowd for their cheering. Sophie was also in his way and he had felt sorry for her, he later claimed. The main car roared off and Gavrilo Princip, another of the assassins felt it was moving too fast for him to hit the Archduke with his. As they toured in an open top Phaeton car down Appel Quay, the first assassin, Nedjelko Cabrinovic, threw his bomb but missed, hitting the support car behind. They had received their guns and bombs from the Black Hand, a gang of well known Serbian terrorists. The local newspaper had published details of the route the day before and 7 Bosnian Serbs had planned to assassinate them by throwing bombs at the car. Having arrived at 9:28am they were taken by car to the town hall where the Mayor would meet them. There were many Serbians in Bosnia and they wanted to join with the rest of Serbia in being independent from the vast Austro-Hungarian Empire. The 28 thJune was their wedding anniversary. Although she had been made Duchess of Hohenberg she was still expected to enter all functions last. Their children had already been excluded from the succession. She had been the lady-in-waiting to Archduchess Isabella, whose sister Franz was expected to marry. Sophie had been allowed by the Austrian Emperor, Franz Joseph, to accompany her husband on an official trip for the first time as she was considered of too low rank to be seen with him. They had been staying just outside Sarajevo for 3 days and had already visited the city to do some shopping. He was with his wife, Sophie, herself a member of the Czech aristocracy. His death was the spark that led to World War One and over 17 million military and civilian deaths, making it one of the deadliest conflicts in human history.Īrchduke Franz Ferdinand had been visiting Bosnia, a province annexed by the Austria Hungarian Empire. He answered me quite distinctly, ‘It’s nothing.’” These words, spoken by the dying Archduke, reported by Count Franz von Harrach, one of his bodyguards, riding on the running board of the car, must lay claim to be one of the greatest misrepresentations in history. “I seized the Archduke by the collar of his uniform, to stop his head from dropping forward and asked if he was in great pain. The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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