Croatian Home defence army as "Corpus separatum" of the Hungarian home defence army (K. U. Honved) from 1868 to 1914

Abstract

The paper deals with the structure of Croatian Home Defence Army within the Hungarian half of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, where it was a part of the Hungarian, that is, of the joint Hungarian-Croatian Home Defence Army. The author analyses its establishment, structure, service, recruitment, organisation and divisional formation during the period between the Home Defence Army establishment date and the beginnings of the World War I in 1914. Naturally, it was necessary to observe structure of the Home Defence Army in its entirety from the perspective of its general structure in the Monarchy, since the military laws applied equally in its both halves (apart from some minor differences).