Sarajevo : The Story Of Princip And Prince Archduke Franz Ferdinand

While on a visit in Sarajevo, Archduke Franz Ferdinand's motorcade was first attacked was not successful that was avoided by the Archduke's driver and his driving skills. Princip thinking that by now all security for the Archduke were change, He was buying a sandwich when he saw himself five feet away from the Archduke, he shot Franz Ferdinand in the

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on June 28, 1914 (Brook-Shepherd 250), gave the Austro-Hungarians the justification needed to attack the Pan-Slavic threat. All that was known at the time was that the assassins were Slavs (Kohn 255) and that they had committed the crime in the hotbed of Pan-Slavic attention in Bosnia. It was later revealed that the murderer was associated with the afore-mentioned “Black Hand” group that advocated unification of all Slavs at whatever the cost (MacKenzie 61) The immediate significance of the murder was that it gave Austria-Hungary a pretext for suppressing the Pan-Slavic

On June 28, Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, were riding through Sarajevo in an open car when suddenly, a young terrorist by the name of Gavrilo Princip stepped from the curb and took aim at the couple with a pistol. Just like that, the heir to the throne and his wife were

On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were shot dead in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, a member of a Serbian nationalist group called the Black Hand. The Black Hand was derived from a secret Serbian terrorist organization called the Narodna Odbrana, which worked towards the unification of all South Slavs in an independent, sovereign country called Yugoslavia. The Narodna Odbrana was created because South Slavs living in Serbia, as well as in Bosnia and other Slavic provinces, felt a strong nationalistic desire to unify all the members of their cultural group in a new country called Yugoslavia. The Black Hand’s commitment to Serbian nationalism led it to replace the Narodna Odbrana, while adopting its purpose, organization, and terrorist philosophy. Members of the Black Hand, driven by their desire to die as martyrs, assassinated Franz Ferdinand to quickly set the tone for a revolution meant to weaken the powerful state of Austria-Hungary and unite all South Slavs in a Yugoslavic nation.

As the procession moved along Appel Quay, the royal couple caught their first fight of the crowds around 10:10am. There was little evidence of security, as the Archduke had banned the army form the city streets for the day. Therefore 120 policemen were used to ensure the Archduke's safety. Suddenly, as the motorcade approached the Cumurja Bridge, a black object flew out of the crowd. Franz Ferdinand saw what looked like a bomb hurtling towards him. He raised his arms to deflect it away

On the 28th of June, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia by Gavrilo Princip who shot both the Archduke and his wife dead. The assassination set off a chain of events that brought the world into the bloodiest

Intro: As the battle died, the legend was born, and so was the nation. On the 28th of June, 1914, Archduke of Austro-Hungary, Franz Ferdinand was Assassinated by Serbian nationalist, Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo. The camel’s back was finally broken after years of alliances and tensions, and

Although the Sarajevo assassins were Bosnians and thus Austro-Hungarian citizens, and although they had plotted against the Habsburg dignitaries for years, three leading members of the conspiracy, Princip, Cabrinovic, and Grebez, came to Sarajevo from Belgrade.

Why start an assassination, if nobody cared? Nobody seemed much to cared about the assassination itself, Austria-Hungary had been looking for an excuse to start war against Serbia to take back territory in the

Ferdinand and his wife had arranged to tour Bosnia. As the couple rode through Sarajevo, the capital of Austro-Hungarian, on June 28, 1914, a man by the name of Gavrilo Princip jumped on their car and fired two shots, killing Ferdinand and his wife. Gavrilo Princip, was linked to a Serbian terrorist group called the Black hand("World War I History." ).

In terms of sheer numbers of lives lost or disrupted, World War I was one of the most destructive and devastating wars in history: an estimated 10 million military deaths and 20 million more crippled or severely wounded. Yet, what were all these deaths really worth? Was the Great War necessary or could it have been avoided? It is commonly, but not universally, accepted that World War I was inevitable. The underlying causes that led up to it made war seem imminent, but it certainly did not guarantee when it would happen.

He was Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the thrones of Austria and Hungary. He was a tough, cold man with little sympathy for nationalists like the Serbs of Bosnia-Herzegovina who wished to leave his uncle’s empire. In the summer of 1914, Franz Ferdinand, accompanied by his wife Sophie, paid a state visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina. This was a brave but dangerous gesture. Fully part of the Austrian Empire for only six years, the region was a hotbed of nationalist terrorists. The royal family had firsthand experience of terrorism, too the Austrian emperor Franz Josif’s wife, Elizabeth, had been assassinated in Geneva in 1898.Franz Ferdinand and Sophie arrived in Sarajevo by train and were taken by car toward the town hall. Shortly after 10 A.M. that morning, as they were passing beside the river, a terrorist threw a bomb at the royal couple’s car. Quickly, the archduke pushed is aside. It went off under the following car, causing serious injuries. Having apparently failed in their assassination attempt, the Black Hand Gang scattered. After the meeting in town hall the archduke went to the hospital to check on the injured people from the explosion, but his driver took a wrong turn. The archduke’s car stopped and began to reverse out of the side street. Hardly able to believe his good luck, Princip (the shooter) stepped forward and shot the archduke and his wife. They were rushed to the hospital, but sadly it was too

On June 28th, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne paraded through the streets of Sarajevo. Ignoring all threats of assassination, the archduke returned to the Apple Quay where his immortality was finally challenged. Gavrilo Princip, a member of the allusive Black Hand, fired several shots into the motorcade of the archduke, killing both Ferdinand and his beloved wife Sophie. To Austria, the murder of the archduke was the last straw. Now fueled with a ‘valid’ excuse to invade Serbia, Austria launched into a full assault, allied with Germany. However, Serbia had been fortified with the strength of both the Russian and French armies. Although war seemed imminent the

In present-day Sarajevo alongside the Miljacka River there used to be commemorative footprints in the concrete sidewalk. Spanning across the Miljacka River was the Princip Bridge, named after the man who took not only the life of an Archduke, but also the lives of many more during World War I. Bismarck had predicted that, “Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans” would cause the war. He was partially correct. The assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip did not cause World War I; instead it served as one of the contributing factors to the start of the war. This is why in Sarajevo, after 1990, there are no traces of the assassination. Street names have been

On June 28, 1914, Franz Ferdinand, heir to Austria-hungry and his wife Sophie, were assassinated while on their way to watch the maneuvers of the Austrian troops in Bosnia. While on the way there, the first assassination attempted started with Franz Ferdinand seeing a black object flying at him that turned out to be a hand grenade, but he hits it away and it lands in the car behind him injuring the