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

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arrived in Köpcsény where next day they introduced themselves in a ceremony to Sándor Károlyi staying then for a long time in Pozsony, the “glorious prince locomtenenses” (Francis of Lorraine) and the Field- Marshal and Seneschal János Pálffy. Having united with the six squadrons led by Ghillányi who arrived there in the meanwhile, on 1st of August they were leaving through Vienna and Linz for Regensburg. The hussars therefore for a long time had left the territory of the country when on 14th of August Sándor Károlyi answered the letter of the Békés County’s general assembly applying for reimbursement of the cattle driven away by Captain Imre Irinyi and his soldiers from Szeghalom.

This present work is aiming at first of all publishing sources and not writing the history of the insurgence. Regarding, however, that the Károlyi hussars got involved in more aspects with the rebellion, we seek to cast brighter light on these events. The most challenging question is that to what extent the Károlyi hussars participated in the suppression of the kuruc movement.

First Lieutenant Spissits stationing in Békés dispatched sentry-master Mihály Harmos with a few of private hussars for scouting as early as 29th of April to check whether the insurgents had been really staying in the neighbourhood. Having left the camp for less than half an hour, Harmos encountered the kuruc troops marching under five flags, out of whom eight riders started galloping toward him at once. The insurgents, calling themselves kurucs and the followers of Rákóczi, invited the junior officer to join them, with the pretence that his father also decided to do so. Having assessed their chance, Harmos returned to Békés where Spissits was able more or less to settle the frightened troops and made his escape with the patrol of Harmos toward Gyula, then Arad. The event was reported only by a letter of Spissits to Sándor Károlyi on 2nd of May.

Colonel Ferenc Károlyi learnt the outbreak of the revolt on 3rd May from the letter of Sándor Spissits dated on 29th April. He immediately realized the danger existing in the revolt if the recruited hussars were going to join the rebels. He instructed Captain István Baranyai to send ten selected old soldiers there from Debrecen in order to help Spissits to keep order among the recruits. Baranyi dispatched sentry-master Ádám Rácz to Arad with a corporal and eleven experienced hussars. The small troop of Rácz however met in their way the weaponed army of Bihar

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