JW ff'tf i*«« Ji SCENES OF THE CIVIL WAR IN HUNGARY. SCENES OF THE CIVIL WAR IN HUNGARY, IN 1848 AND 1849; WITH THE PERSONAL ADVENTURES OF AN AUSTKIAN OFFICER IN THE ARMY OF THE BAN OF CROATIA. etsitian. ,jf0urtf) LONDON: WILLIAM SHO^ERL, PUBLISHER, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.20, stationers'at hall.][entered 1850. P. Priuterto II.R.H Prince Ha\market.>hoberl, 'un,, Albert, St.,Rupert %5 S3 i fi; tiewjiy 'C —y «*7fl PJ1396 JUL8 1953 PyoK*nrr# PREFACE. BY THE TRANSLATOR. The late Civil War in willHungary form a in theassuredly prominent subject of the for the lastworld twohistory years. Whether it in a commu-originated spark nicated the inby revolutionary explosion whether it arose from discontentFrance; excited ambitious in theby demagogues inflammable minds of a of theportion of or whether the ;population Hungary inhabitants of that had realcountry any acts of theirgrievances, any oppressive to to megovernment, complain of, appears to be a which remains to bequestion yet VI PREFACE. is thatsolved. So much, however, certain, evi-this insurrection furnishes additional if of theweredence, any needed, invariably of as manifestedmob-rule,sanguinary spirit in the of revolu-great prototype succeeding —the first Revolution in thetions French ; aof the foreignrising Spaniards against : and in recent events at Frankfurtusurper and Vienna.