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=Assassination Of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.= > The couple was returning from an official visit to City Hall. The assassin, 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip burned with the fire of Slavic nationalism. He envisioned the death of the Archduke as the key that would unlock the shackles binding his people to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. > The officers seized Princip. They beat him over the head with the flat of their swords. They knocked him down, they kicked him, scraped the skin from his neck with the edges of their swords, tortured him, all but killed him.
 * Serbia provided the guns, ammunition and training that made the assassination possible.
 * When the car passed Gabrinovic, the compositor, he threw his grenade. It hit the side of the car, but Francis Ferdinand with presence of mind threw himself back and was uninjured. Several officers riding in his attendance were injured.
 * An automatic pistol from Princips coat was fired and two shots were off. The first bullet struck the wife of the Archduke, the Archduchess Sofia . She was an expectant mother. She died instantly. The second bullet struck the Archduke close to the heart.
 *  He said only one word, 'Sofia' - a call to his wife. Then his head fell back and he collapsed. He died almost instantly.