Monument to the Battle of Chlum

                                    Monument to the Battle of Chlum On the field near Chlum stands a sandstone column with a statue of Austria, the Austrian eagle, in memory of the 1st Austrian Army Corps, the Battery of the Dead of Centurion August van der Groeben. The monument dates from 1896. The Battle of Hradec Králové (otherwise known as the Battle of Chlum or the Battle of Sadová) took place in 1866 during the Prussian-Austrian War and was a decisive…