The establishment of the "battery of the dead" monument in Chlum in 1893

The Committee for the Maintenance of Monuments on the Kralohradecky Battlefield, founded in 1889 at the initiative of retired centurion Jan Steinský, resolved in 1891 to mark the place where centurion van der Groeben, first lieutenant Heinrich Wolf and 52 men of the famous Austrian cavalry had heroically completed their lives battery No. 7./VIII., a monument that would not only be a worthy tribute to these rivers, but also an eternal memory of them.…