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Vilmos Lázár · In memoriam
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Vilmos Lázár
1817 – 1849 · 31 years
He started a military career with the 34th infantry regiment. Lieutenant in Ferdinand 1st's cavalry regiment. Resigned before 1848 and married the widowed Baron Mária Revitzky. Re-enlisted from his estate in Zemplén County and by February 1849 major in the Honvéd engineers. He was a brigade commander within the 9th division, and Bem appointed him a colonel after the battle of Temesvár. He retreated into Transylvania, hoping to start anew from there with reduced forces. Surrendered August 19, 1849.