Italy in the nineteenth century and the making of Austria-Hungary and Germany . the causes that led to it in 1866; and tounderstand Sadowa, we need to know what events distractedthe Austrian Emperors dominions eighteen years before,when the Emperor Nicholas sent armies to his assistance inHungary, and offered to dispatch other troops into Lom-bardy to overwhelm Charles Albert. This offer, however,was declined. Old Marshal Radetzky considered himselfquite equal to the task, and, as we have seen, he successfullyaccomphshed it. A brief biography of Louis Kossuth, probably the bright-est comet of
Italy in the nineteenth century and the making of Austria-Hungary and Germany . the causes that led to it in 1866; and tounderstand Sadowa, we need to know what events distractedthe Austrian Emperors dominions eighteen years before,when the Emperor Nicholas sent armies to his assistance inHungary, and offered to dispatch other troops into Lom-bardy to overwhelm Charles Albert. This offer, however,was declined. Old Marshal Radetzky considered himselfquite equal to the task, and, as we have seen, he successfullyaccomphshed it. A brief biography of Louis Kossuth, probably the bright-est comet of our nineteenth century, will afford us, I think,the best means of learning all we may here need to knowof the abortive attempt at a Hungarian revolution. The life of Kossuth was almost coeval with that of thenineteenth century. He was born in 1802. The years inwhich his name became a household word throughoutEurope and America were in the middle of the century,and his death took place almost at its close. His father wasa Magyar nobleman of small estate, and he was a Protes-. ?^r^ LOUIS KOSSUTH. KOSSUTH. 15 I tant. Young Louis graduated at a Calvinist college whenhe was seventeen, and at once commenced the study oflaw. He was twenty-nine when the cholera, which spread overChristendom in 1831, broke out in Hungary, and, as usual,the peasantry attributed the pestilence to the Jews and tothe nobles. It was then that Kossuth came forward intopublic sight. Up to that time he had chiefly distinguishedhimself in field sports. But such sports make the noblemanand the peasant personally acquainted. Kossuth knew theclass he had to deal with, — the people whose hearts hewas to touch by burning and persuasive words. Whereverthe cholera raged in its worst form, he appeared to calmthe fears and combat the delusions of the stricken people. A year later he was sent to the Hungarian Diet by someprincess as her proxy, having Uberty to vote, but not toaddress the assembly. There, as he sat silen
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