Képaláírás: Partial View of the town of Komárom. This pure Hungarian town in 1849 was a fortified position which, when the Hungarian army had been compelled to surrender to the superior odds of the joint Austrian and Russian forces; for months held out, to the amazement of the whole of Europe, under the command of the heroic Hungarian general, Klapka György (George Klapka). Komárom - where even today the only Czechs to be found are settlers placed the resince the War, the town it self belonging, not to the Highlands at all, but to the typically Hungarian Lowlands - was snatched from us by the Czechs. Probably the only reason why the Czechs have tolerated the statue of Klapka (shown in our illustration) is that his name sounds very Slavonic; otherwise it seems quite sure that the men, who, as we have seen in the case of Maria Theresias's statue, are apostles of iconoclasm, would certainly have acted here as did the Rumanians in the pure Hungarian town of Marosvásárhely when they removed the statues of General Bernand Kossuth (see below), forgetting in their ignorance that these heroes had fought, not only against the Austrians, but also against the Russians, the traditional enemies of the Rumanian people.
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