 After a few months, he joined his family and remained with Emperor Pedro II until his death on December 5, 1891.After that, he settled in Vienna, where he obtained, through his father, the special permission of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria to join the Austro-Hungarian Navy.Having conducted the entrance examinations, Prince Augusto was admitted to the Austrian naval reserve without prejudice to his status as a Brazilian citizen, as he explained in a letter dated May 6, 1893 to Baron of Estrela, his attorney in Brazil