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

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the Romanians and Slovaks (all of the latter ones were from Békéscsaba) and no more than few of them were Serbs.

When their captured delegates’ report gave the commander of Arad ground for arresting Péró, the Serbian major officers themselves, being aware of the plot for a long time, hastened to march against the “kurucs” and on 9th May dealt a decisive blow on them at Erdőhegy. More hundreds of the peasant army inexperienced in warfare were killed and many died in escape. During the following days and weeks approx. 170 captured persons were taken to Buda by the authorities, who brought to trial on 4th April 1736. Captain Péró and his 11 companions were executed in the Szent György Square, 68 prisoners were sentenced to life-long soldiery, and many of their fellows suffered longer or shorter imprisonment. In the investigation more Serbian border-guard officers fell under suspicion, some of them were carried to Buda but finally they all cleared up the accusations and were allowed to leave free after the announcement of sentence.

The revolt labelled by the name of Szegedinác Péró is an important event in the Hungarian and Serbian people’s common history and though now there are more scientific outcomes within our reach, to the full extent we are not aware even today of what happened. It can be made clearer primarily by exploring and publishing sources, to which we would like to contribute with this present volume. Exactly at the time of the kurucs’ plot and open revolt, the recruitment and military training of the additional squadrons of the hussar regiments set up by General Count Sándor Károlyi at the beginning of 1734 was under way. The recruitment however was stopped at the turn of 1737—1735 and finally a decision was made that the regiment would be enlarged by no more than one, the 11th squadron, while the other part of the collected recruits was going to make up the deficiency of the earlier established squadrons. The recruit hussars, together with around 60 veterans directed home from the western seat of the war, were staying in the close neighbourhood of the revolt: in Debrecen and in the area of Békés (Békés, Csaba, Füzesgyarmat, Gyula, Szeghalom) and Csongrád (Hódmezővásárhely, Mindszent, Szentes) Counties. In the April of 1735 approx. 300 Károlyi-hussars, most of them recruits, were stationing in the South Great Plain region. They were over the training but staying without equipment (uniform and weapons) or horse. The soldiers were waiting impatiently for the distribution of these and more of them had been deserting. This

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