The Austrians, cut off from their neighbors with only a line of communication to the rear attempted to concentrate their forces against one flank and then the other to little effect.  With exposed flanks, outnumbered, and severely outgunned, the army wilted away in the carnage.

Galicia cost Austria dearly:  surrendering territory to the depth of 150 miles and losing 400,000 men (of whom 300,000 were prisoners), the Hapsburg Empire faced its decline.  The heaviest casualties were among the Tyrolean Kaiserjaeger regiments:  some 40,000 had fallen out of an elite corps of 50,000. 
