Károly Knezić [SEP] place of death
Károly Knezić
Károly Knezić (6 September 1808, Veliki Grđevac - 6 October 1849, Arad) was a honvéd general in the Hungarian Army. On his father's side he had Croatian roots, while his mother was a Hungarian. He was executed for his part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, and is considered one of the 13 Martyrs of Arad.
Family.
His father was of Croatian descent but in service to the Austrian border guard as an officer near Knezic. His mother, Borbála Benkő, was
and Herzinger brigades with encirclement, he managed to take Pered. Unfortunately the III. corps led by General Károly Knezić were not moving to support Asbóth's troops, and only after Görgei sent them order to advance, started to march towards the battlefield, and this time too, Knezić ordered to some of his troops to cross in a place were the crossing conditions were not favorable, while they could have cross without problem on the bridge from Negyed, and because of this they arrived only at 2 o'clock in the afternoon,