The Eighth Hungarian Tribe, 1982 (9. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1982-02-01 / 2. szám
February, 1982 THE EIGHTH TRIBE Page 7 In the meantime, the Canadian Pacific Railway progressed to the prairies and the company’s directors named a station near Kaposvár and Kolin in honor of Esterházy, who had formulated and organized the settling of people in that area, in September 1902. The name was later extended to both existing communities and unified them as one. The name Kaposvár survives in the name of a creek and lake nearby. In addition to the history of the settlement’s name, the origin and etymology of the person’s name whom the town was named after is equally interesting. Count Paul Oscar Esterházy became known to Canadian authorities in 1885 when he presented an immigration scheme to representatives of the Department of Agriculture. He succeeded in persuading the government in less than a year to grant land and help Hungarian immigrants settle in Canada. His effciency may have been due to having experience in related matters while being employed by the U.S. Immigration Agency at Castle Garden, New York. His own life was no less difficult than the immigrant’s he helped. Little is known about Count Ester házy until he was 18 years old and fled Hungary as a veteran of the lost War of Independence in 1849. He served in the Hungarian Armed Forces under the name John Baptist Pach as a lieutenant and kept this name until 1867, the year of compromise between Austria and Hungary. He spent ten years in the British Army from 1856 to 1866 as J. B. Pach. However, hispas9port was issued in his own name, Count P. O. Esterhzázy, by the Austrian ambassador in Munich, Bavaria on July 27, 1867. Changing names was not uncommon to the Esterházys. The family was known as Zerházy until Ferenc (1563-1594), deputy lord-lieutenant of Pozsony, the medieval coronation city and one time capital of Hungary, now Bratislava in Czechoslovakia, became the baron of Galánta and abandoned his surname for a more dignified one to become the first Eszterházy. Later, one branch of the family aquired the title of Count, while another received a Princehood. Researching these two names was like tracing the tangled roots of mangrove tree, especially in the case of BUDA. Both the generic and specific components offer areas for moréd exploration and semantic examination. There are indications that BUDA originally was a title, equally bestowable upon a person of high ranks or a place having special status. Then it became a surname like other titles did in Hungary. It is, therfore, contended that Buda remains open for further interpretations. (ősi Gyökér) looo YlA’RSl hungaM i ART OF WAN» RÁKÓCZI FOUNDATION RÁKÓCZI FOUNDATION PUBLICATIONS This is the first book of a series to be published by the “Rákóczi Foundation” on Hungary, its people, spirit, history, culture and contribution to World-civilization. A Thousand Years of the Hungarian Art of War has been selected as the first publication because, as General Mark W. Clark wrote in his Preface, “A study of a nation’s art of war, paradoxically, may be the best instrument to promote international understanding and peace. If we know the dreams and hopes of other nations, the causes of wars and their goals, we can understand better their way of thinking, the influence of past experiences on their view of life, and their national character.” A Thousand Years of the Hungarian Art of War, using a topical approach, surveys and analyzes some of the well-known events of Hungarian history — the Mongolian invasion, Hunyadi’s victories over the Turks, the Rákóczi and Kossuth Freedomfights etc. It also familiarizes the reader with the less known military theoretician Miklós Zrínyi, the daring hussar raid of András Hadik on Berlin, and Hungary’s participation in the two World Wars. The book opens a window on the military aspects of Central European history, and is useful reading which will satisfy the general reader as well as the specialist. THE BOOK “It was not an accident, or a coincidence of circumstances that the Hungarian immigrants fought in the American Revolutionary War for independence and freedom. They knew from their own history and experiences, from their memories of the Rákóczi rebellion and of the 1848 revolution, that freedom was worth fighting for anywhere in the World.”
