Seres István: A Károlyi-huszárezred hadkiegészítése a Tiszántúlon Szegedinác Péró felkelése idején - Chronica Bekesiensis 3. (Békéscsaba, 2010)

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in Békés County however were concentrated in Békés town on 29th April by Lieutenant Spissits, but that very day they continued to withdraw to Gyula, then Arad, and did not return to the county before the suppression of the revolt. The recruits stationing in Debrecen did not leave their stand all along, except a squad of weaponed soldiers out of the here staying veterans, whom, at Colonel Ferenc Károlyi’s command, were directed forward by Captain Baranyi for the help of Spissits. Though they arrived too late to reach the squadron of Békés, they had the opportunity to join the neighbouring Bihar County’s weaponed nobility and participated in persecuting the insurgents. The Károlyi hussars anyway were facing the insurgents no more than once on 29th of April between Békés and Köröstarcsa but this encounter passed off without any military conflict.

The liquidation of the revolt enabled the hussar officers to feel at ease again. In the second half of May and in June they were occupied with filling up the number of the troops and acquiring the equipment (uniform, weapons) and horses, then leaving the country. The last reports interesting us are informing about the fate of the captured and severely tortured Captain Péró and the mood of the Serbian border-guards stationing along the River Maros.

In this volume our primary intention is to reveal the hussars’ relation to the insurgence which cannot be understood without allowing some insight into the setting up of the regiment and its additional squadrons. In the introduction this topic is covered in a detailed way, treating separately the history of the troops stationing in Debrecen and in Békés or Csongrád Counties. There are a number of sources available on the recruitment but this volume allows us to publish only a few of them. These are typically concerned with the recruit squadron standing in Békés County.

Two of the regiment’s officers were staying in the area of the revolt or its direct neighbourhood at its outbreak: Captain Farkas Macskásy was stationing in Hódmezővásárhely, Csongrád County, while First Lieutenant Sándor Spissits in Békés County. This source-collection is based overwhelmingly on the mails of Sándor Spissits who wrote at least 16 letters to Sándor and Ferenc Károlyi between 29th April and 30th May, and on 26th of June. Captain Farkas Macskásy wrote 6 letters from Hódmezővásárhely and Szentes and forwarded Sergeant Dávid Czanner’s report to the two Károlyis.

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