Seres István: A Károlyi-huszárezred hadkiegészítése a Tiszántúlon Szegedinác Péró felkelése idején - Chronica Bekesiensis 3. (Békéscsaba, 2010)
Képek jegyzéke
Captain Imre Irinyi returned to Békés County no earlier than the suppression of the revolt and did not pass down to us letters relevant to the history of the insurgence. The hussar regiment’s two other officers standing in Hungary at the same time were writing more reports on the events. Captain István Baranyi was residing all the time in Debrecen in the company of Lieutenant-General Count Gvadányi. His ten reports originating from this period preserved important data mainly on the side- events of the revolt. Captain László Kövesdy returned home from the French theatre of war exactly on the day the revolt outbroke: 27th of April. His letters from Pest and Nagykároly contain valuable information. The four hussar officers’ letters were completed with some other letters from the Károly family’s archive, which are also in close association with the revolt and the Károlyi hussars’ presence in the South Great Plain region. Count Ferenc Károlyi residing at the time of the insurgence in Surány then Nagykároly received first doubtfully the news readable in First Lieutenant Spissits’ letter dated on 29th of April but took measures immediately to protect the untrained recruit troop. He forwarded without delay the first lieutenant’s report to his father and in his letter on 8 th May he was concerned with outlining the reasons leading to the outbreak of the revolt. The old Sándor Károlyi received actual and reliable news no earlier than 7th of May from a soldier of Spissits called Benkovicz whom he instructed at once to go on to János Pálffy. Four days later he forwarded to Vienna Spissits’ letter dated on 4th May as well. The Békés County sub-prefect [alispán] Mátyás Klósz was in travelling to Pest and staying in Szarvas when in the morning of 28th April came to know that a revolt broke out in the neighbouring Szentandrás. He rushed at once to Békés and no later than that night he circularized more letters to summon an impromptu assembly for the next day. On 29th April he was staying in the town till 2,00-3,00 p.m., then having got the news on the battle in Köröstarcsa he continued to escape to Gyula. We would have known this from no other source than his letter written after the successful defence of Gyula, if, fortunately, a contemporary copy of his letter put down in hurry to First Lieutenant Spissits stationing thereabout had not come down to us. Klósz let the first lieutenant know that the insurgents were about approaching Békés and threatening the town. The sub-prefect and the county nobility’s some additional reports 267
