The Life of Gov. Louis Kossuth; With His Public Speeches in the United States, and a Brief History of the Hungarian War of Independence

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ... he was compelled to take to his heels. We took twice as many cannon as we lost. Besides the many prisoners in our hands, the enemy left several thousand dead on the field. We had 2,000 dead and wounded--among the latter Gen. Gorgey, who was grazed on the head by a grape-shot. Battles in Transylvania, under General Bern. Bern was appointed to the command of the forces in Transylvania, and was soon ready to begin offensive operations. There were at that time opposed to him from thirty to forty thousand Wallachians, and fourteen thousand Austrian regulars. In spite of this great superiority of opposing numbers, he very soon took the chief city. With 20,000 men, Bern marched at first against General Gedeon, who stood, with six thousand Austrians and those Wallachians who were not yet pacified, about Besztercze. Puchner, who was in the Saxon district with eight thousand men, and who had undoubtedly received powers from the Austro-Russian government to this end, now called for aid upon the Russian general, Luders, who was stationed in Wallachia. Luders immediately dispatched ten thousand men under General Scariatin to his assistance. But Bern pushed forward, and after having beaten the combined Austro-Russian forces five several times, carried Hermanstadt by storm, and soon after Kronstadt, the two main supports of the reaction. We drove the army itself through the Temeser pass into Wallachia. With a few exceptions, Transylvania was now entirely cleared of enemies, and held by an army 20,000 strong. But this army was not able to contend successfully with the 40,000 Russians, the 14,000 Austrians, and the new insurrection of 30,000 well-armed Wallachians. Austrian and Russian gold corrupted the soldiers so that Bern lost four successive battles, together with his...