Seres István: A Károlyi-huszárezred hadkiegészítése a Tiszántúlon Szegedinác Péró felkelése idején - Chronica Bekesiensis 3. (Békéscsaba, 2010)
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coincided with the kuruc revolt and the fear of the recruits’ going over to the kuruc’s side compelled the commanders to prevent desertions. It is less known however that the officers of the hussar regiment staying in Hungary were writing a number of real-time reports on the events, the publication of which is our primary goal in this volume. So far mainly Serbian historians (Radonic and Gavrilovic) issued important archival sources of the revolt in 1735, while in Hungary contemporary documents appeared usually only in publications treating local history. The number of them however is rather few and typically the same documents were re-published more times. So we intend to supply a deficiency when we present our volume to the wider reader public. The majority of the sources published now (36 letters in total) is made up of Captain István Baranyi, László Kövesdy and Farkas Macskásy and Lieutenant Sándor Spissits’ reports to General Count Sándor Károlyi regiment-owner and Colonel Count Ferenc Károlyi. Three contemporary letters came down to us also from the hussar-captain László Kövesdy who returned home at the time. Colonel Count Ferenc Károlyi, staying at the time of the revolt first in Nagysurány, then in Nagykároly, reported the events in detailed letters to his father living in Pozsony. The letters informed the old general of the news of the insurgence, which were provided to the colonel partly by Captain István Baranyai and Farkas Macskásy, partly Lieutenant Sándor Spissits who withdrew to Arad at the time. In addition Ferenc Károlyi continued to make his father aware of his measures taken in favour of the security of Szatmár County. With view to the fact that only a relatively small part of the letters mentions the Károlyi Hussars staying in the South Great Plain region, for the lack of space we publish only Ferenc Károlyi’s first letter written to his father on 3rd May. We have completed our sources with some other documents having close relation to the Károlyi Hussars’ role in April-May of 1735, which are mostly letters mailed by the officials of Békés, Bihar and Arad Counties. In some places the contemporary annexes enclosed to the letters also remained, letting us attach them too. The reports and their annexes contain so far not known data primarily on the outbreak and the first days of the revolt but their contents give us an insight into the history of the whole movement as well. The troops in Csongrád County were staying all the time in the three settlements; those 265
