Buza Péter: Bridges of the Danube - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)

structure was left virtually undamaged. Later Dembinszky, the commander of the Hungarian National Defence Forces, wanted to burn the bridge down. Fortunately Adam Clark managed to persuade him to drop that desperate idea. Clark himself helped to dismount and carry far upstream all the wooden structures of the bridge so that the Hungarian troops evacuating the Castle could not be easily chased by the joint Austrian-Russian forces.

And eventually, on the day of its inauguration on 20 November 1849, General Haynau, the Austrian

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