Albert Gyulay

Gyulay Albert Graf von Maros - Németh and Nádaska ( born September 12, 1766 furnace, † April 17, 1836 in Pest ) was a kk Officer and Lieutenant Field Marshal.

Albert Gyulay, brother of Count Ignácz Gyulay and son of Sámuel Gyulay, made as a captain of a Székely Hussars regiment the Turkish war of 1788/89 in Transylvania and then took a grenadier captain in the regiment of his father Sámuel Gyulay at the main army under Loudon's command of the storming of Belgrade part with distinction on September 30, 1789.

In the campaign of 1793 he was to communicate the proposal to the nightly alert the heights of Tienen ( here March 16th, 1793 victory of the French under Dumouriez over the Austrians ) made ​​a few days after the battle of Neerwinden. A brilliant success crowned the well laid plan, and Gyulay was to this major in O'Donnellschen Freikorps.

In 1799 he fought as a colonel of a newly built Hungarian infantry regiment in the army of Italy. In 1800 he commanded during the Hungarian insurrection as a Major General Army Corps beyond the river Tisza. From 1803 on, he was alternately working as a Brigadier in Bohemia, Hungary and the military frontier, during the campaign of 1805 but at the Hungarian insurrection and was appointed on August 14, 1808 to field marshal lieutenant.

In the campaign of 1809 he commanded the 8th Army Corps in Italy, resulted in the Battle of Fontana Fredda (April 16 ) the left wing, led the retreat from Italy by the Fellatal, fought out victoriously in the valley of Wolf creek in Tarvisio, penetrated by the Savetal in Hungary and joined June 2 at St. Gotthardt with the Archduke Johann. In 1813 and 1815 he commanded a reserve corps and then retired to Pest, where he died April 17, 1836.