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GEORG KLAPKA (1820-1892)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 844 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KLAPKA (1820-1892)  , Hungarian soldier, wa's born at
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Temesvar on the 7th of
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April 1820, and entered the
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Austrian army in 1838 . He was still a subaltern when the Hungarian revolution of 1848 broke out, and he offered his services to the patriot party . He served in important staff appointments during the earlier
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part of the war which followed; then, early in 1849, he was ordered to replace General Meszaros, who had been defeated at Kaschau, and as general commanding an army corpshe had a conspicuous share in the victories of Kapbina, Isaszeg, Waitzen, Nagy Sarlo and Komarom . Then, as the fortune of war turned against the Hungarians, Klapka, after serving for a short time as minister of war, took command at Komarom, from which fortress he conducted a number of successful expeditions until the capitulation of Vilagos in August put an end to the war in the open field . He then brilliantly defended Komarom for two months, and finally surrendered on honourable terms . Klapka
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left the country at once, and lived thenceforward for many years in exile, at first in England and afterwards chiefly in
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Switzerland . He continued by every means in his power to
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work for the independence of Hungary, especially at moments of
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European war, such as 1854, 1859 and 1866, at which an
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appeal to arms seemed to him to promise success . After the war of 1866 (in which as a Prussian major-general he organized a Hungarian corps in
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Silesia) Klapka was permitted by the Austrian government to return to his native country, and in 1867 was elected a member of the Hungarian Chamber of Deputies, in which he belonged to the Deak party . In 1877 he made an attempt to reorganize the
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Turkish army in view of the war with Russia . General Klapka died at
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Budapest on the 17th of May 1892 . A memorial was erected to his memory at Komarom in 1896 . He wrote Memoiren (
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Leipzig, 1850) ; Der Nationalkrieg in Ungarn, &c .

(Leipzig, 1851); a

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history of the
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Crimean War, Der Krieg im Orient . . . bis Ende Juli 1855 (Geneva, 1855) ; and Aus meinen Erinnerungen (translated from the Hungarian, Zurich, 1887) .

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