His friendly relations with the general and other no less fat-headed military dignitaries of old Austria brought him various decorations and orders, by which he felt extraordinarily honoured and considered himself to be the best soldier under the sun and the best theoretician in strategy and all military sciences.
Komandante jeneralarekin eta Austria zaharreko goi agintari militar tentelekin zeuzkan lagun-harremanei esker domina eta gurutze ugari lortu zituen. Hortaz, biziki ohoraturik sentitzen zen, eta munduko soldadurik hoberentzat eta estrategia eta arte militar guztien teorizatzailetzat zeukan bere burua.