I WANT TO BE LIKE HIM ONE DAY… John Lukács at Ninety
I WANT TO BE LIKE HIM ONE DAY… John Lukács at Ninety

Summary/Abstract: A little over a year ago I paid him a visit in his home in America. “Just tell the driver ‘Valley Forge Memorial Chapel’, and I’ll meet you in front of the church”, John Lukács had instructed me on the phone. I steeped myself in the history of George Washington’s battered and dejected army, which waited out the winter of 1777–1778 in this area, cold and famished in the searing cold, while the English wined and dined heartily in well-heated rooms in Philadelphia. (Incidentally, it was in the same year, in 1777, that the first permanent university in Hungary moved from Nagyszombat, today Trnava in Slovakia, to Buda.) That winter proved long enough for von Steuben, a Prussian officer, to make a proper army of Washington’s men, just as a new coach whips a flagging team into shape, which would stand firm in the Battle of Monmouth by the Delaware River in June of 1778.

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