At this time, Czechs in Prague were a true minority. Had it not been for certain bright sparks who chose to have their entire families become Czech during the Austrian census, the proportion might have been even lower—perhaps under 5%.
Though there were not many Czechs, Czech influence had always lingered like an inescapable shadow.
Czech resistance had a long history, from the earliest Hussite Wars to the Defenestration that sparked the Thirty Years' War, and then the uprising of 1848.
Looking across history, merely in terms of intensity and the consequences they caused, Hungary's rebellions were nothing more than a drizzle.
However, a little over two centuries ago, after the Thirty Years' War, Austria carried out a thorough purge of Bohemia's original noble class.
The blade swung back then was far harsher than Franz's was now. Half the nobility was purged outright, and two-thirds of the land was redistributed.
After that, Bohemia was no longer the main force behind armed rebellions. They chose another path: the political route.
Yet over those two hundred years, this struggle had continually changed in nature, gradually becoming a means for local nobles to seize power.
That was why there emerged the bizarre spectacle of Germans making a bigger fuss than Czechs, with a group of Germans voluntarily becoming Czechs.
Yet this political struggle did no small harm to the Austrian Empire as well. Historically, during World War I, officers of German descent often led entire Czech units in surrendering to Russia, bringing them along to stab the Austro-Hungarian Empire's army in the back.
The famous Czech Legion of the Russian Civil War was formed by them, only to be driven all the way to Vladivostok by the Soviet Red Army.
There was no need to list, one by one, the other incidents: collectively