>loses the war >loses most of his battles >loses more men than the enemy in every battle he wins >military career lasted 1 (one) year >considered one of the greatest generals in Hungarian history
>>17270848Sounds pretty based. What're you known for anon?
I think this had something to do with it
>>17271500What was so great about this?
>>17273062Really? He liberated basically the entire country in a few months after the revolutionary forces were backed into a corner, while fighting against a numerically superior, better trained, better equipped army with superior officer corps using a haphazardly recruited army that didn't even exist a year prior. He would have won the war then and there if the Russians hadn't intervened.
>>17273094https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Campaign>The spring campaign's commander-in-chief was General Artúr Görgey, whose army (47 500 men, 198 cannons) defeated the numerically, technologically and tactically superior (55 000 soldiers and 214 cannons and rockets) imperial armies48k + 198 vs 55k + 214 is not a huge disparity.>The Hungarians won the battles of Hatvan (2 April), Tápióbicske (4 April), Isaszeg (6 April), Vác (10 April), Nagysalló (19 April), on 26 April relieved the fortress of Komárom from a long Austrian siege, then on 21 May 1849 liberated the Castle of Buda, concluding the Spring Campaign. Of these battles, Görgei only commanded at Tápióbicske, where the Hungarians lost 1,500 men to the Austrians' 300, and at Isaszeg, where the Hungarians lost 1,000 men to the Austrians' 369.>He would have won the war then and there if the Russians hadn't intervened.He won pyrrhic victories with a slightly smaller force that briefly demoralized a minor Austrian army.