Bjelovarske pukovnije na europskim ratištima 1756. - 1918. godine
Bjelovar regiments on European battlefields between 1756 and 1918

Summary/Abstract: More than 170 years of war on European battlefields of the Križevci and Đurđevac regiment, and later the 16th Varaždin regiment as a part of the Austrian Army, left an inerasable mark in the Austrian military historiography, which produced a series of extensive scientific papers significant for Austrian as well as Croatian military history. In this scientific paper, archives of Austrian historiography in a long historical period of almost 100 years, and scientific papers of Croatian historiography, which were written in the second half of the 20th century, are used. Special emphasis has been put on observations about tactics and operational usage of our border-guards in big European wars, where they were usually acting as special, light units for special missions, and their way of conducting the war and their war experience gained from the Croatian-Turkey border were irreplaceable. By excepting the new organization of the Austrian Army in the middle of the 18th century they became an equal segment of regular Austrian formations, but they preserved their own way of conducting the war, when tactics, tricks, speed and bravery were needed and they affirmed such a way of conducting the war in European war history. They took part in all wars led by the Monarchy from the middle of the 18th century until the abolition of the Military Border Land in 1871. After that, the 16th Varaždin regiment was founded, with its headquarters in Bjelovar, which took part in the occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878 by the suppression of the Serb and Muslim uprising in 1882 in Eastern Herzegovina and on the battlefields of Serbia, Bukovina, Galicia and south Tyrol during The First World War.

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