Battlefield From Hungarian Revolution of 1848 Found in Romania

MUREŞ COUNTY, HUNGARY—Hungary Today reports that Koppány Bulcsú Ötvös of Romania’s Mureş County Museum and his colleagues found the location of the Battle of Segesvár, which concluded on July 31, 1849. The Russian army won the battle, while the Hungarian revolutionary army lost some 1,300 soldiers, including the Hungarian national poet, Sándor Petőfi. After this defeat and several others, the Hungarians surrendered to the Russians on August 13, 1849. The search for the battlefield, conducted with metal detectors, uncovered some 400 cannonballs and other military equipment, and pinpointed the positions of the Russian and Hungarian armies. “With accurate reference points, we have reconstructed the course of the battle and clarified events that were previously known only from conflicting memoirs,” Ötvös said. The artifacts recovered during the project will be displayed in a new wing at the Sándor Petőfi Memorial Museum, he concluded. To read about excavations of a Cossack stronghold that was destroyed in the early eighteenth century, go to "Ukraine's Lost Capital."