Emma, Baroness Orczy
, dedicated her second Hungarian novel, A Bride of the Plains, to the memory of Louis Kossuth
, the national hero who liberated Hungary from the yoke of the Austrian empire...
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Strickland
Elizabeth's circle of acquaintances was very different from that of Agnes. Late in life she often entertained supporters of the Hungarian nationalist leader Lajos or Louis Kossuth
(who lived in exile in England after Hungary...
14 April 1849: Hungary, under the revolutionary leadership...
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14 April 1849
Hungary, under the revolutionary leadership of Louis Kossuth
, became an autonomous reformed state, deposing the Austrian Emperor Francis Joseph
.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
32
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
160
Deák, István. “Lawful Revolutions and the Many Meanings of Freedom in the Habsburg Monarchy”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 280-14.
304
13 August 1849: Hungary was reconquered for the Hapsburgs...
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13 August 1849
Hungary was reconquered for the Hapsburgs when the Hungarian army surrendered to the Russian commander.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
27, 32
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.