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Hungarian Advances. Excitement in Vienna, April 27, 1849
Written: by Engels on April 27, 1849;
First Published: in the special supplement to the Neue Rheinische Zeitung No. 284, April 28, 1849.
Cologne, April 27. Today is Kossuthâs birthday; the leader of the Hungarian revolution is 43 years old today.[1]
Today an official royal imperial Bulletin (No. 35) already confirms the reports of Hungarian advances which we published this morning: that Wohlgemuth has been defeated, Pest and Ofen are taken, and Komorn is relieved. It is now established that the Hungarians have already passed not only the Gran and the Neutra but even the Waag, and that Wohlgemuth has been driven back to Tyrnau, five miles from Pressburg. Altogether only four comitats in Hungary are still in imperial hands, and on all sides it is conceded that on Hungarian soil not a single defensible position is left to the imperial forces.
Great excitement prevails in Vienna. The people throng the streets as in the revolutionary days of last year. The military, usually so impudent, have again become remarkably restrained. Vienna is waiting for the Hungarians to cross the Leitha to effect its fifth revolution, [2] a revolution which will not be simply an Austrian, but simultaneously a European one.
Eljen Kossuth! Eljenek a Magyarak!
- â Evidently the editors of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung did not have Kossuthâs exact biographical data at that time and so availed themselves of the current newspaper information. In fact, Kossuth was born on September 19, 1802
- â When Engels expressed his hope for a new revolution in Vienna if the Hungarian army moved further, and called this probable revolt the âfifth revolutionâ, he obviously had in mind the four revolutionary events in the Austrian capital in 1848, namely: the popular uprising of March 13 that started the revolution in Austria armed risings of workers, artisans and students on May 15 and 26 that compelled the Government to make new concessions to the democratic movement (it extended the suffrage, consented to have a one-chamber Constituent Imperial Diet, annulled orders to dissolve the Central Committee of the National Guard and the Academic Legion, etc.); workersâ disturbances on August 23 that led to the collision between workers and bourgeois detachments of the national guards; and the popular revolt on October 6-31, the culminating point of the revolution in Austria and Germany