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In February 1849, as the Hungarian army retreated and Windisch-Grätz's Habsburg forces advanced through the heart of the country, the newly appointed Polish general Henryk Dembiński gathers his corps on the plain between Kápolna and Eger for the revolution's first great set-piece battle.
Over two days of fighting, poor coordination and a divided command turn Hungary's counteroffensive into a contested withdrawal...
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Bánlaky, József. A magyar nemzet hadtörténelme. Digitized edition, Arcanum, 2001. Hungarian Electronic Library (MEK). https://mek.oszk.hu/09400/09477/html/index.html. Chapter 18 (the 1849 winter campaign and the Battle of Kápolna).
Hermann, Róbert. "Megírható-e az 1848–49-es csaták története, avagy az 1848–49-es hadtörténetírás problémái." Hadtörténelmi Közlemények 120, no. 2 (2007): 649–686.
Heves megye monográfiája. Vol. 8. Eger, 2003.
Vámosgyörk község története. 1998, 28–29.
Rubicon. "Legends of 1848–1849." https://rubicon.hu/en/cikkek/legends-of-1848-1849.
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In February 1849, as the Hungarian army retreated and Windisch-Grätz's Habsburg forces advanced through the heart of the country, the newly appointed Polish general Henryk Dembiński gathers his corps on the plain between Kápolna and Eger for the revolution's first great set-piece battle.
Over two days of fighting, poor coordination and a divided command turn Hungary's counteroffensive into a contested withdrawal...
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0:00 Introduction
📚 Sources:
Bánlaky, József. A magyar nemzet hadtörténelme. Digitized edition, Arcanum, 2001. Hungarian Electronic Library (MEK). https://mek.oszk.hu/09400/09477/html/index.html. Chapter 18 (the 1849 winter campaign and the Battle of Kápolna).
Hermann, Róbert. "Megírható-e az 1848–49-es csaták története, avagy az 1848–49-es hadtörténetírás problémái." Hadtörténelmi Közlemények 120, no. 2 (2007): 649–686.
Heves megye monográfiája. Vol. 8. Eger, 2003.
Vámosgyörk község története. 1998, 28–29.
Rubicon. "Legends of 1848–1849." https://rubicon.hu/en/cikkek/legends-of-1848-1849.
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