Hungarian War of Independence
1848-1849

References

By William W. Haggart

Books

I want to thank my son Cory, living in Germany and his Hungarian friends/research team, Koltay Gabor and Dalnoki Adam, for their help in obtaining the books listed below as well as other information found in the three articles. Of course, belonging to several wargaming and history lists has been a great resource as well, generating help from John Csonka in Budapest. I couldn't have done it without them.

Barcy, Zoltan and Somogyi, Gyozo, A szabadsdghorc hasdserege. 1848-49 katonai szerveaete, egyenruhdi es /egyverzete [The Army of the War of Independence. The Military Organization, Uniforms and Armament of 1848-49] (1986) Budapest.
Bona, Gabor ed. The Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence, 1848-18-19, A Military History. (1999) New York: Columbia University Press. [This is the definitive history of the war. See the website references]
Funcken, Fred and Liliane. L'Unifbrme et Les Armes Des Soldats du XIXe Siecle (1982) France: Casterman
Kannik, Preben. Military Uniforms in Color. (1968) New York: Macmillan Company
Knotel, Richard, Knotel, Herbert, Jr. & Sieg, Herbert , Uniforms of the World (1956) New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Kelenik Josef, et al. A Magyar Huszar. (2000) Budapest: Corvina
Komjathy, Anthony Tihamer. A Thousand Years of the Hungarian Art of War. (1982) Toronto. Canada: Rakoczi Foundation Publications
Pavlovic, Darko. The Austrian Army 1836-66 (1) Infantry (2) Cavalry (1999) Oxford: Osprey Publishing.
Robert, Hermann. 1848-1849 A szabadsdgharc hadtortenete. (2001) Budapest: Korona Kiado
Rothenberg, Gunther. The Army of Francis Joseph (1998) West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press.

Articles

I highly recommend the Foreign Correspondent for detailed information on anything military during the Nineteenth Century.

The Foreign Correspondent, the newsletter of Continental Wars Society. Issues #41-43 January, April, and July 1999 Editor Ralph Weaver, 37 Yeading Avenue, Rayners Lane, Harrow, Middlesex HA2 9RL
The Nafziger Collection, "Orders of Battle, the Hungarian Revolt." (See websites below)
Szabo, Janos, "Hungary's Ill-fated War of Independence", Military History, August 1999

Websites

There are an amazing number of websites with excellent information on the Hungarian War. Some of the best are below:
http://www.oszk.hu/kiallit/1848/zaszlo1.html A site with examples and close-ups of Hungarian flags.
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/hu_h848.html#85 A great site for flags. It has several flags that can be downloaded and used for wargaming.
http://home.t-online.de/home/0282692343-0002/freedom.html This site has a number of excerpts from Bona's The hlungurian Revolution and War o/ Independence, 18-18-1849. A Military Historyv
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/088033/0880334339.HTM If you are so inclined, you can order Gabor Bona's book from Columbia Press at this site.
http://home.fuse.net/nafziger/index.html George Nafziger has a huge library of orders of hattle available at very reasonable prices. There are complete OOBs of the Austrian and Russian forces in the Hungarian War at different points in the conflict, but only one corps-size OOB for Hungarian forces.
http://www.hungary.con/corvinus/lib/thou/thou09.htm Another site that has book excerpts. This time from Komjathy's. Thousand Years of the Hungarian Art of War.
http://hungaria.org/projects/1848-49/ A site devoted to Hungarian history, it gives a history of the Hungarian War with numerous references.
http://www.hunmagyar.org/history/szabliarc/1848-49.htm This is a great site for pictures of the war and battles as well as portraits of some of the significant leaders. A number of pictures loaded with uniform information as well as flags.
http://lazarus.elte.hu/gb/hunkarta/ica99/52.htm This is the website of the Hungarian War Museum listing the maps they have available.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/european/huwebres.html This is the Library of Congress web page for all things Hungarian "Selected Hungarian Internet Resources."
http://www.hat.com/Otlir2/KattingerO3.html Here is someone who actually games the Hungarian war already and has pictures of his plastic conversions.
http://www.hungaria.org/projects/kossuth/gallery.html Here is a picture gallery about Lajos Kussoth. There is interesting information about the man as well as pictures.
http://hungary.ciw.edu/kossuth/ Another site that gives a great deal of information on Kossuth, including a recording of his voice and a history not only of the war, but his life in the U.S.
http://ourworld.compuscrve.com/homepages/JanHochbruck/check.htm04/12/2001 Here is a list of the "Forty-Fighters" who fought in the Union Armies during the Civil War. An estimated fourteen thousand Hungarian expatriates fought in the American Civil War. Several officers are listed here as well as German, Polish, and Italians. For instance, Sandor Asboth commanded a division in the Hungarian War. During the Civil War, he first served under Fremont, and was later wounded while commanding a division at Pea Ridge. Wounded again at Marianna, Florida in 1864, he served as U.S. minister to Argentina and Uruguay alter the war.
http://www.ohiou.edu/~Chastain/rz/serbvio.htm This is a detailed account of the participation of Serbia in the Hungarian War. Serbia actively supported the Serbians in Serbian Vojvodina, within Hungary's southern borders.
http://wwwl.minn.net/~graczar/ihre_Kossuth.htm This site recounts how and why Kossuth County, Iowa was named after the Hungarian freedom fighter.

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