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

(Leipzig, 1851); a See also:

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

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