

The main participants in the war mobilized over the course of about a week. By chance, Gavrilo Princip had by this time moved over to Franz Joseph Street and he was able to take the fatal shot. Franz Ferdinand ordered his car to turn around so he could visit people injured by the grenade but his driver misunderstood, and continued on the original route where, while attempting to turn around, his car stalled. The assassins believed their plot had failed. The motorcade then continued past the other assassins, none of whom acted as they lacked clear shots in the commotion. The second assassin tossed a grenade that injured several people. The first assassin was standing near a policeman and didn't use his weapon. He was joined in the city by seven Serbian terrorists there to kill him, in hopes of removing a prominent moderate from the line of succession and heightening the tensions between Vienna and its South Slavic subjects. Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrived in Sarajevo, then part of the Habsburg dominion, on June 28, 1914.
