Austrian Empire
From 1849 it awarded a cross made out of cannon-metal for military service.
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“The war shook down the Tsardom, an unspeakable abomination, and made an end of the new German Empire and the old Apostolic Austrian one. It ... gave votes and seats in Parliament to women.... But if society can be reformed only by the accidental results of horrible catastrophes ... what hope is there for mankind in them? The war was a horror and everybody is the worse for it.”
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“Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.”
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