Seether - Driven Under

And if these actions were successful! .. But the Austrians were much more likely to lose than win. Everyone was dissatisfied with the war: and aristocrats, forced, following the example of the emperor, to participate in it personally or indirectly; and merchants who suffered heavy losses due to cash injections into the army; and common peopleto which the whole burden of recruitment and other duties fell, including the supply of troops with livestock and food. Emperor Joseph quickly lost the remnants of popularity even among those who always supported him: among the peasants, artisans, educated representatives of the third estate. Everyone became ill. Revenues plummeted, life lost predictability - and most importantly, the hopes that the situation would soon be corrected had almost vanished.