KOSSUTH (Lajos, 1802-1894, Hungarian Patriot and Statesman)

Fine signature ‘L. Kossuth’, on a piece of paper, 4¾” x 1½”, no place, no date

When revolution spread through Europe in 1848, ‘Hungary’s purest patriot and greatest orator’ was chosen to be in the first government allowed by the Austrians, and was soon its effective head, but by August 1849 the Austrians had recovered complete power, and Kossuth spent the rest of his years in exile. In 1851 He was briefly in England and the USA, then in England till 1859, in close association with Mazzini, then in Italy where he died at Turin

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Stock No:  42479      £175

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