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Statue of the Hungarian Independence War by Gyorgy Zala 1893
This was erected in memory of the freedom fighters who fought in 1848-9 in Buda Castle. In the spring of 1849, the rebel Hungarians defeated the Austrian army and liberated their country. Franz Joseph I of Austria begged for help to Nicholas I, the Russian Tsar, who, in the name of the Holy Alliance, sent 200,000 soldiers to put down the Hungarian revolution. The Hungarian insurgents were defeated by the combined Russo-Austrian offensive.
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