Also, Dennis seems awfully casual about the hair on his chin when he has so little left on the rest of his head. I’m not old enough to grow a beard, so my expertise here is limited, but I can’t help thinking that he will smear grease into everything he touches, or that Dad will eventually find tiny brown and grey hairs on or in something he cares about. I hate watching Dennis pluck at his beard. He adjusts his eyeglasses, apposite wide rims of black plastic around oddly thin lenses, and plucks at his scraggly, mottled beard with thumb and middle finger, pausing periodically to inspect the tips or scrape a fingernail across one of his lower incisors.
Meanwhile, Liechtenstein remains a thriving and successful country - that still has no army to this day.I’m looking at Dennis, across the thin stacks of cardboard that define our mutual hostility. None of the stories seem to be substantiated - but no one has debunked them either. Lonely Planet seems to share a version naming the newcomer an “Italian friend” - other sources have suggested that he was a defector. When they returned, however, their numbers had grown to 81.Īccording to The World at War, an Austrian liaison officer joined them. So the men of Liechtenstein marched home. The Battle of Königgrätz by Georg Bleibtreu In the main theater of the war, the Battle of Königgrätz would earn Prussia a victory, decisively ending the war. While the deployed force was there to defend the territory against any attack from the Prussian-allied Italians, according to War History Online, “there was really nothing to do but sit in the beautiful mountains, drink wine and beer, smoke a pipe and take it easy.” Second, they left with a force of 80 men - and returned home with 81.ĭuring the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, Liechtenstein sent an army of 80 strong to guard the Brenner Pass between Austria and Italy while a reserve of 20 men stayed behind. By this time, indeed, they didn’t even have an army, having disbanded it completely in 1868.Īnd yet their final deployment in 1866 remains notorious for two reasons: first, they lost no battles and suffered zero casualties ( having avoided all fighting). In 1943, the principality went so far as to ban the Nazi party.
They managed to remain neutral (and thus largely avoid) both world wars. It was named after the Princes of Lichtenstein, who united the County of Vaduz and the lands of Schellenberg in 1719, forming their small but charming Principality of Liechtenstein. It rests on the banks of the Rhine between Switzerland and Austria. Today, Liechtenstein is a small country – the fourth smallest state in Europe and sixth smallest in the world.
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