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| Title: | Letter from an Austrian Officer in Hungary, 1848-1849 |
| Authors: | Baron, W. |
| Keywords: | Hungary
Revolution
1848
Habsburg Empire
Personal narrative
Croatia
Serbs
South Slavs
Grenzer (border troops)
Bosnia |
| Issue Date: | 1850 |
| Publisher: | E.H. Butler and Company |
| Citation: | W. Baron, "Letter II," in Scenes of the Civil War in Hungary, In 1848 and 1849 with Personal Adventures of an Austrian Officer (Philadelphia, E.H. Butler and Company, 1850), pp. 24-38. |
| Abstract: | The letter of an Austrian soldier describing the military frontier and the border soldiers (Grenzer or Granicari) around the Hungarian periphery. Covers the following themes: Military Frontier of Hungary; its Extent and Situation--Frontier troops--The Seressans; their personal appearance, costume--Dress of the other Border Troops their character; military spirit of their Women; their personal beauty; their costume--Villages of the Borderers--Family houses--Patriarchal manners--Service required of the Border-Soldier--Guard-posts. |
| Description: | 5 pages |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1813/2151 |
| Appears in Collections: | 1848-1900: Revolution, Liberalism, Modernization
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