1848/49 in Transilvania, about those revolutionary years

i suppose you already know this site.

i am generally intrested in the grenzer regiments, both from banat and transsylvania.

Yes, I know it

Old fighters from Romanian militia of Avram Iancu's army, photographed at Ţebea, Hunedoara county, 1919, at Avram Iancu's grave. They fought in 1848/1849 revolution in Transylvania. In 1919 they guarded Avram Iancu's grave until romanian army arived there. Photo copy given to me courtesy to National Military Museum, Bucharest.

Moţ combatant from Auraria Gemina Legion, 1848-1849, comanded by Avram Iancu (reenactment, 2011).



Auraria Gemina Legion was raised from romanian villages above Câmpeni, Alba county. It was the only romanian militia unit which was not disbanded or destroyed by the enemy in combat. It fought 3 succesive (and succesfull) battles in Abrud, Alba county, in summer of 1849.

Grenzer of romanian nationality, from Orlat, 1 Wallachische Grenzinfanterie Regiment, 1848-1849 revolution, fighting on the side of romanians (reenactment, 2010).



This post has been edited by 21 inf on April 08, 2011 05:23 pm

Someone asked some time ago who provided military training to romanian transylvanian militia in 1848/1849. Here is one of them: http://enciclopediaromaniei.ro/w/index.php...ian&redirect=no]http://enciclopediaromaniei.ro/w/index.php...ian&redirect=no[/URL]

New articles about 1848/1849 battles, cronologically

Poienari skirmish http://enciclopediaromaniei.ro/wiki/Lupta_...Poienari_(1848)

Târnava skirmish (was posted months ago, but here for the sake of cronology of events) http://enciclopediaromaniei.ro/wiki/Lupta_...ava_(Hunedoara)

Brad skirmish [URL=http://enciclopediaromaniei.ro/wiki/Lupta_de_la_Brad_(1848,_Hunedoara)]http://enciclopediaromaniei.ro/wiki/Lupta_...848,_Hunedoara)



This post has been edited by 21 inf on August 12, 2011 05:44 pm

Update about general Ghe. Adrian, who's biography I posted above: he was captured by hungarian troops entering Abrud in 6th of May 1848 and held captive until romanian militia liberated him after the first battle from Abrud, which ended on 10th of May 1848. (testimony of fellow prisonier Vasile Macariu Moldovan, prefect of Legiunea de Câmpie, published in 1875)

Legion Blasiana (Legiunea Blasiana) http://enciclopediaromaniei.ro/wiki/Legiunea_I_Blasiana

Legion Auraria Gemina (Legiunea Auraria Gemina) http://enciclopediaromaniei.ro/wiki/Legiun..._Auraria_Gemina

Legion Mureş (Legiunea Mureş)
http://enciclopediaromaniei.ro/wiki/Legiunea_XII_Mureş

If I'll have time, I'll wrote also a article about Legiunea de Câmpie.

This post has been edited by 21 inf on September 09, 2011 06:06 pm

21 inf, nice work, thanks for your enciclopediaromaniei.ro articles.
Regards!

Memories of Arthur Gorgey about 1848 revolution in Transilvania (and Hungary), english language here: http://www.archive.org/details/mylifeactsinhung00grrich

He has a few sentences about "moţi".

I also found memories of Klapka, Czecz, and Csutak Kalman (the last two in german and, respectively, hungarian language).

Czecz Janos fought in Transylvania in 1848/49 and sought refuge in Argentina after 1848 revolution. He became the founder of modern argentinian army.

@Denes: can you translate "vetágyu" from hungarian in romanian, please? I tried online hungarian-romanian dictionary but no results.

The word has no meaning. Something must be missing, or the word is misspelled.
Agyu (with two accent marks) is cannon. Vet is nothing.

Gen. Dénes

This post has been edited by Dénes on November 12, 2011 12:55 pm

@Denes: Thanks for the response! The word "vetagyu" is from the book of Kövari, Lászlo, Erdély története 1848-1849-ben, Pest, 1861, in hungarian language in original. When he describe some military units, hungarian, romanian, austrian or russian, he mentioned the name of the unit, strenght in men and the artilery they had. He says for example "one company of Bianchi Regiment, with 4 six pounders gun and 1 vetágyu" (negy hat fontos ágyu es egy vetágyu). Initially I suposed that vetágyu is a kind a mortar, due the fact that guns are always mentioned separatelly. Or it might be some kind of rocket? I learned that in 1848-49 hungarian and austrian troops used Congreve rockets in Transylvania. Or it can be some kind of improvised piece of artilery or a kind of artilery piece used only for signals? As I am doing research, I need to know for sure what is a "vetágyu", if you can help in this way. You can see yourself the fragment of the text here http://www.archive.org/stream/erdlytrtnete...e/n142/mode/1up, search at the page 142.

If somebody can translate this :

This post has been edited by Petre on November 13, 2011 01:12 pm

Thanks, Petre! Due to your post I managed to found out what a vetagyu is: a howitzer! Sorry that I can't help you with the translation, is too complicated for me, as I dont speak hungarian so well.

But actually I did not want this...