Hungarian Revolution

…Arany took part in the Hungarian Revolution and for a short period edited a government newspaper for peasants. With the crushing of the revolution, he took up teaching. In 1858 he was elected a member of the Hungarian Academy. He moved then from Nagykőrös to Pest, where he edited a…

…him a hero of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848–49. He was the author of treatises on artillery, mathematics, and history.

In 1847 the county of Pest elected Kossuth to represent it in the next Diet, in which he assumed leadership of the “national opposition,” which had agreed on an extensive program of political and social reform. The reformers made a little progress in subsidiary fields, but…

After the outbreak of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, Nesselrode, who had restrained Nicholas from intervening in the French revolutions of 1830 and 1848, suggested that Russia aid Austria in suppressing it; this act not only crushed the Hungarian rebels but also contributed to the general misconception that Russia was…

When the Hungarian Revolution broke out in March 1848 and the Austrian government requested military assistance from Russia, Paskevich commanded the Russian troops that invaded Hungary in June 1849. Although his forces suffered badly from disease and his leadership was less effective than it had been during…