Karol d'Abancourt de Franqueville (soldier)

Karol d'Abancourt de Franqueville (* 1811 ; † October 16, 1849 in Pest ) was a Polish resistance fighter who took part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848/1849 . His brother was the publicist and economist Franciszek Ksawery d'Abancourt de Franqueville .

Life

Karol d'Abancourt de Franqueville completed his schooling in Sambor and Przemyśl and served as a cadet in the 30th Infantry Regiment of Laval Nugent of Westmeath .

In 1837, he joined a political conspiracy organized by Dmitrasinovich, who was the first lieutenant of Count Mazuchelli's regiment. She was betrayed, however, and Karol d'Abancourt de Franqueville was arrested and sentenced to death , but was pardoned and his sentence commuted to a twenty-year prison term at the Timisoara Fortress .

In 1848 he was granted amnesty and immediately joined the Hungarian army, where he led the 12th hussar regiment in battles in southern Hungary. During this time he married in Bela Crkva , where a street was named after him in his honor.

In June 1848 he was assigned to the General Staff of the Northern Army and successfully carried out a reconnaissance with twelve hussars in Sáros County . The following nomination for major of the 51st Battalion of the Honvéds , he turned down in order to continue with his regiment. At the Battle of Szolnok he lost his voice due to injuries.

As adjutant of General Henryk Dembiński he was at the Battle of Szeged captured by Austrian soldiers and pestilence imprisoned, where he on 16 October 1849 Mieczysław Woroniecki and Peter Giron executed was.

literature

• Helena d'Abancourt: d'Abancourt de Franqueville Karol . In: Polski Słownik Biograficzny . tape 1 . Krakow 1935, p. 3 .