Máday Ferenc Mátyás-huszár százados visszaemlékezése Háromszék önvédelmi harcáról
The Reminiscence of Captain Ferenc Máday from the Mátyás-hussar regiment on the Self-Defence Struggle of Háromszék

Summary/Abstract: At the end of May 1849, Captain Ferenc Máday from the Mátyás-hussar regiment published an interesting diary in the gazette “Marczius Tizenötödike”. This source had hithertonot been used by historians, although the author took part in the fights of the Székely-Camp, and then in the selfdefence struggle of Háromszék. Ferenc Máday was born in 1808 in Nagymar of Pozsony county in a Roman-Catholic noble family. He served as sergeant in 126 the 2nd Hussar Regiment, recruited from Transylvania between 1824 and 1832. After he quit, he lived in Torda. He became member of the political circle formed in Torda county (August 15 1848), and then, at the beginning of September, volunteered to the “Kossuth Lajos” (later 15th Mátyás) Hussar Regiment. Although he was an active participant of the fights in the defence of Háromszék,Máday did not write extensively on the military events, because his main aim was to compile a manifesto against the whole political and military leadership of Háromszék. They, according to Máday, had sabotaged the fights of the Szeklers, while the positive figures of his account were the politicians of the radical opposition. After the repression of the Hungarian War of Independence, Máday made a living as an official in an estate. Living in Buda, in 1867 he has become member of the Honvéd association of the City of Pest. This source is published in its original form as an article from the “Marczius Tizenötödike”, with critical footnotes preserving the original names.

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