György Kmety

György Kmety ( born May 24, 1813 in Felsőpokorágy, county Gemer and small Hont, † April 25, 1865 in London) was an officer who fought as a Hungarian freedom fighter and after the failure of the March Revolution of 1848/49 in the service of the Ottoman Empire.

Life

Kmety visited the College in Eperies and Evangelical Lyceum in Wroclaw, in preparation for theological studies but joined the military and was at the outbreak of the Hungarian Revolutionkapitány.

He joined them on, soon became the ezredes and participated as a division commander of the Upper Danube army under Arthur Görgey part in the campaign in January and February 1849.

The end of June cut off from the upper Danube Army, he united with the southern army Moritz Perczels and struck with this the Banus. After the decisive defeat of Hungary in Temesvár he escaped on Turkish soil and, after he converted to Islam, under the name of Ismail Pasha Turkish general.

In the Crimean War entrusted with the defense of the fortress of Kars, he beat the storm of the Russian General Nikolai Nikolaevich Murawjew the same from victorious. Only when the famine in the fort had reached the highest degree, he handed over the command of the English Supreme Fenwick Williams and took advantage of Erzurum.

He made his merits against the English Blue Book, in an apology under the title. A narrative of the defense of Kars on the 29th of Sept. 1855, translated from the German of George Kmety " ( Lond. 1856) submits that open a letter to General Williams followed ( August 1, 1855 ). He later became governor-general of Kastamonu in Asia Minor.