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5.2 Before the arrival of the siege artilleryįollowing the relief of Komárom from the imperial siege and the retreat of the Habsburg forces to the Hungarian border, the Hungarian army had two choices as to where to continue its advance.

4 The Hungarian march to Buda and preparations for the siege.

On, the same day as the capture of Buda, the two emperors Franz Joseph I of Austria and Tsar Nicholas I of Russia signed the final treaty in Warsaw, which agreed on the intervention in Hungary of 200,000 Russian soldiers (and an 80,000-strong reserve force, if necessary), in order to help the Austrian Empire crush the Hungarian revolution. Thanks to this, the second Hungarian revolutionary Government, led by Bertalan Szemere together with Governor-President Lajos Kossuth, returned from Debrecen, the interim capital of the Hungarian revolution, to the capital of Hungary. The capture of Buda Castle completed the liberation of the Hungarian capital cities ( Buda and Pest). Other regions of the capitals also suffered heavy damage due to the artillery duels between the two sides. The senseless bombardment of Pest by Austrian commander Major General Heinrich Hentzi caused destruction of classic buildings on the shores of the Danube. The siege of Buda was also the shortest siege of the war (18 days).

All other fortresses capitulated following agreements between besiegers and besieged.

Part of the Spring Campaign, the siege began on, ending with the Hungarian capture of the castle by assault on 21 May.īuda Castle was the only fortress throughout the entire war to be taken by storm by the besiegers on either side. The Hungarian revolutionary army was led by General Artúr Görgei during the Hungarian War of Independence. The siege of Buda took place at Buda castle (called Festung Ofen in German), part of the twin capital cities of the Kingdom of Hungary.