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The Awesome Nicknames of European Nobility and Royalty, part 4

Moving a bit forward in history this time, to the age of Metternich and his lot. Julius Jacob von Haynau (October 14, 1786 – March 14, 1853). The Hyena of Brescia. Haynau was a Austrian noble and general whose hatred of revolutionary ideals (and revolutionaries, for that matter) was legendary. He also had an infamously bad temper, so [...]
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