GEORG See also:

• GEORG KLAPKA (1820-1892)

KLAPKA (1820-1892)  , Hungarian soldier, wa's See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• TEMESVAR

Temesvar on the 7th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1820, and entered the See also:

• AUSTRIAN

Austrian See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army in 1838 . He was still a subaltern when the Hungarian revolution of 1848 See also:

• BROKE, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)
• BROKE, SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE, BART

broke out, and he offered his services to the patriot party . He served in important See also:

• STAFF (O. Eng. staef, cf. Du. staf, Ger. Stab, &c.; Icel. stafr meant also a written letter, and O. Eng. stafas, the letters of the alphabet; " stave," one of the thin pieces of wood of which a cask is made, is a doublet)

staff appointments during the earlier See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war which followed; then, See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early in 1849, he was ordered to replace See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

General Meszaros, who had been defeated at Kaschau, and as general commanding an army corpshe had a conspicuous See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share in the victories of Kapbina, Isaszeg, Waitzen, Nagy Sarlo and See also:

• KOMAROM (Ger., Komorn)

Komarom . Then, as the See also:

• FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune of war turned against the Hungarians, See also:

• KLAPKA, GEORG (1820-1892)

Klapka, after serving for a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time as See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister of war, took command at Komarom, from which fortress he conducted a number of successful expeditions until the See also:

• CAPITULATION (Lat. capitulum, a little head or division; capitulare, to treat upon terms)

capitulation of Vilagos in See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August put an end to the war in the open See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field . He then brilliantly defended Komarom for two months, and finally surrendered on See also:

• HONOURABLE (Fr. honorable, from Lat. honorabilis, worthy of honour)

honourable terms . Klapka See also:

• LEFT

left the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country at once, and lived thenceforward for many years in See also:

• EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

exile, at first in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England and afterwards chiefly in See also:

• SWITZERLAND

Switzerland . He continued by every means in his See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power to See also:

• WORK

work for the See also:

• INDEPENDENCE
• INDEPENDENCE, DECLARATION OF
• INDEPENDENCE, WAR OF

independence of See also:

• HUNGARY
• HUNGARY (Hungarian Magyarorszdg)

Hungary, especially at moments of See also:

• EUROPEAN

European war, such as 1854, 1859 and 1866, at which an See also:

• APPEAL

appeal to arms seemed to him to promise success . After the war of 1866 (in which as a Prussian See also:

• MAJOR
• MAJOR (Lat. for " greater ")
• MAJOR (or MAIR), JOHN (1470-1550)

major-general he organized a Hungarian See also:

• CORPS (pronounced as in French, from which it is taken, being a late spelling of tors, from Lat. corpus, a body; cf. " corpse ")

corps in See also:

• SILESIA

Silesia) Klapka was permitted by the Austrian See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

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, FRANCIS (FERENCZ), (1803-1876)

Deak party . In 1877 he made an See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt to reorganize the See also:

• TURKISH

Turkish army in view of the war with See also:

• RUSSIA
• RUSSIA (Rossiya)

Russia . General Klapka died at See also:

• BUDAPEST

Budapest on the 17th of May 1892 . A memorial was erected to his memory at Komarom in 1896 . He wrote Memoiren (See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 1850) ; Der Nationalkrieg in Ungarn, &c .

(Leipzig, 1851); a See also:

• HISTORY

history of the See also:

• CRIMEAN

Crimean War, Der Krieg See also:

• IM(K2+a2+h2—2 ah cos 0)

im Orient . . . bis Ende Juli 1855 (See also:

• GENEVA
• GENEVA (Fr. Geneve, Ger. Genf, Ital. Ginevra, Late Lat. Gebenna, though Genava in good Latin)
• GENEVA, LAKE OF

Geneva, 1855) ; and Aus meinen Erinnerungen (translated from the Hungarian, See also:

• ZURICH
• ZURICH (Fr. Zurich; Ital. Zurigo)

Zurich, 1887) .