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Schwarzenberg versus Nicholas I, Round One: The Negotiation of the Habsburg-Romanov Alliance against Hungary in 18491

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2009

Kenneth W. Rock
Kenneth W. Rock
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“Our intervention in Hungary will prove to be an event which, at the present moment, will overshadow all other problems in Europe,” Russia's Chancellor Karl Robert Nesselrode noted in May, 1849,2 while the last major drama sparked by the upheavals of 1848 was being staged in Hungary's towns, undulating plains, and cholera-ridden valleys. Europe's liberals were captivated and Europe's conservatives aghast as Magyar irregulars, in mid-April, 1849, hurled the Habsburg imperial soldiery backwards from their positions encircling Buda and Pest in central Hungary to within forty miles east of Vienna. Would an independent, national Hungarian republic arise in the central Danubian basin? Would nearly six hundred years of Habsburg hegemony along the Danube be rent asunder? Such questions were decided by the clash of arms amid the alternating heat and thunderstorms of the Hungarian summer of 1849.

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Nineteenth Century Diplomacy
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Austrian History Yearbook , Volume 6 , January 1970 , pp. 109 - 141
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Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 1970

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94 Word of Kossuth's actions reached Vienna only on May 2 and was not published by the newspapers before May 3. Medem, to Nesselrode, , Vienna, May 3, 1849, Andics, A Habsburgok és Romanovok szövetsége, p. 380Google Scholar. Neither the Habsburg nor Romanov governments knew of the Debrecen declaration of independence or the dethroning of the Habsburg dynasty before the negotiations for Russian military assistance in Hungary had been concluded. Nicholas I apparently did not comment on Kossuth's April 14 actions in his correspondence. See Schiemann, Geschichte Russlands unter Kaiser Nikolaus I, Vol. IV, p. 191 n. In Austria, Francis Joseph's reaction was typical of that of his government: “So much the better” (“Tant mieux”), he wrote his mother on May 15, 1849. As cited in Andics, Das Bündnis Habsburg-Romanow, p. 185.

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