Military history of Hungary
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The military history of Hungarian people regardless of geography.
Early Hungarian warfare
The first well established reference to Hungarians derives from
Georgius Monachus' work in the 9th century. It mentions that around 837 the Bulgarian Empire desired an alliance with the Hungarians.[1] Although the Hungarians supposedly participated earlier at the Battle of Pliska in 811.[2]
The Hungarians began the conquest of the Carpathian Basin in 895. They continued to raid adjacent countries for many years. The Hungarians were able to defeat three major Frankish imperial armies between 907 and 910,[3] however a military defeat in 955 forced them to withdraw and consolidate their gains.
The Magyars advanced as far as the Iberian Peninsula, the Coast of Normandy and city of Constantinople.[4]
The Magyar arts of war involved agility, speed, and precision. Their armies were well-organized and the men were well trained and disciplined.sabers and spontoons, but the reflex bow remained their armament of choice. The Magyars placed an emphasis on ranged fighting – their charges were usually preceded by a volley of arrows, and followed up by hand-to-hand combat. The majority of their troops were trained to fight on horseback.
Era of patrician warfare
The Hungarians demonstrated a use of siege weapons, including a
King Coloman of Hungary ascended to the Hungarian throne. The feudal lords of Croatia elected a new king, and tried to get rid of the Hungarian occupation, and then the Hungarians took up arms against Croatia, and won a bloody victory at Gvozd Mountain
. After this, Coloman was crowned as king of Croatia in 1102.
The Hungarian Szeklers
and the settling Kuns.
On the winter of 1458 the 15 years old Jász
mounted archers, regained part of their former role in the Fekete Sereg.On 2 September 1686 united Hungarian,
Habsburg Monarchy
.A decisive part of the fighting force – about four fifth, most of the time – was formed by the main arm of the time: infantry. The other arm, cavalry, still consisted mainly of heavy cavalry, or units equipped with mail armor, called battle cavalry. Another two types of cavalry were
dragoons and light cavalry. Hungarian hussars became internationally recognized, being a prime example of light cavalry. In this era artillery
became a third arm.Two significant attempts were made at achieving independence: the
war for independence led by Francis II Rákóczi (1703–1711), and the Hungarian Revolution of 1848
.
Notable battles
- ~800–970: Hungarian invasions of Europe
- ~895–902: Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin
- 899: Battle of Brenta
- 907: Battle of Pressburg
- 908: Battle of Eisenach
- 910: Battle of Lechfeld
- 910: Battle of Rednitz
- 919: Battle of Püchen
- 933: Battle of Merseburg
- 955: Battle of Lechfeld
- 970: Battle of Arcadiopolis
- 1044: Battle of Ménfő
- 1051: Battle of Vértes
- 1068: Battle of Kerlés
- 1074: Battle of Mogyoród
- 1091–1097: Croatia in personal union with Hungary
- 1097: Battle of Gvozd Mountain
- 1146: Battle of the Fischa
- 1167: Battle of Sirmium
- 1202: Siege of Zara
- 1217–1218: Fifth crusade
- 1241–1242: First Mongol invasion of Hungary
- 1241: Battle of Mohi
- 1246: Battle of the Leitha River
- 1278: Battle on the Marchfeld
- 1282: Battle of Lake Hód
- 1285–1286: Second Mongol invasion of Hungary
- 1312: Battle of Rozgony
- 1348: Battle of Capua
- 1366–1490: Hungarian–Ottoman wars
- 1396: Battle of Nicopolis
- 1442: Battle of Hermannstadt
- 1444: Battle of Kunovica
- 1444: Battle of Varna
- 1448: Second Battle of Kosovo
- 1456: Siege of Belgrade
- 1464: Siege of Jajce
- 1479: Battle of Breadfield
- 1481: Battle of Otranto
- 1477–1488: Hungarian–Austrian War
- 1485: Siege of Vienna
- 1486–1487: Siege of Wiener Neustadt
- 1490–1541: Hungarian–Ottoman wars
- 1521: Siege of Belgrade
- 1526: Battle of Mohács
- 1532: Siege of Güns
- 1541: Siege of Buda
- 1541–1664: Hungarian–Habsburg–Ottoman wars
- 1543: Siege of Esztergom
- 1552: Siege of Eger
- 1566: Siege of Szigetvár
- 1588: Battle of Szikszó
- 1595: Battle of Gyurgyevó
- 1596: Battle of Mezőkeresztes
- 1599: Battle of Sellenberk
- 1600: Battle of Miriszló
- 1652: Battle of Vezekény
- 1664: Siege of Léva
- 1664: Battle of Saint Gotthard
- 1683–1699: Great Turkish War
- 1683: Battle of Vienna
- 1686: Siege of Buda
- 1687: Battle of Mohács
- 1697: Battle of Zenta
- 1703–1711: Rákóczi's War of Independence
- 1705: Battle of Zsibó
- 1705: Battle of Saint Gotthard
- 1708: Battle of Trencsén
- 1716–1718: Habsburg–Ottoman War
- 1716: Battle of Pétervárad
- 1716:
- 1803–1815: Napoleonic Wars
- 1809: Battle of Raab
- 1809:
- 1848–1849: Hungarian Revolution of 1848
- 1848: Battle of Mór
- 1848: Battle of Pákozd
- 1848: Battle of Schwechat
- 1849: Battle of Kápolna
- 1849: First Battle of Komárom
- 1849: Second Battle of Komárom
- 1849: Third Battle of Komárom
- 1849: Battle of Segesvár
- 1849: Battle of Szőreg
- 1849: Battle of Temesvár
- 1914-1918: Hungary in World War I
- 1914: Battle of Limanowa
- 1916: Brusilov offensive
- 1916: Battle of Transylvania
- 1916: Battle of Doberdò
- 1917: Battle of Caporetto
- 1918-1920: Revolutions and interventions in Hungary (1918–1920)
- 1919: Hungarian–Romanian War
- 1941-1945: Hungary in World War II
- 1941: Invasion of Yugoslavia
- 1941: Operation Barbarossa
- 1942-1943: Battle of Stalingrad
- 1943: Voronezh–Kharkov offensive
- 1944-1945: Budapest Offensive
- 1956: Hungarian Revolution of 1956
References
- ISBN 963-482-175-8.
- ^ Király, Péter. Gondolatok a kalandozásokról M. G. Kellner "Ungarneinfälle..." könyve kapcsán.
- ^ Peter Heather, Empires and Barbarians, Pan Macmillan, 2011
- ^ http://hungarianhistory.com/lib/hunspir/hsp07.htm [bare URL]
- ^ http://www.thefullwiki.org/Military_of_Hungary [bare URL]
Sources
- Bánlaky, József (1928). A magyar nemzet hadtörténelme [The Military History of the Hungarian Nation] (in Hungarian). Budapest.
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Further reading
- Miklós, Molnár; Anna Magyar (2001). A Consise History of Hungary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–138. ISBN 0-521-66736-4.
- Szemere, Bertalan (1860). Hungary from 1848 to 1860.pdf. Cambridge: R. Bentley. pp. 1–269. ISBN 0-521-66736-4.
- Lendvai, Paul; Jeferson Decker (2003). The Hungarians: A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. pp. 1–664. ISBN 0-691-11406-4.