Chapter 103: Interest Hijacking

Hungary

As news of the Kingdom of Sardinia's defeat spread, more and more Hungarians lost faith in the revolution, with cities such as Miskolc, Debrecen, Pécs, and Szeged falling one after another.

By mid-June, the Hungarian Republic was reduced to its last city, Budapest.

The revolutionaries, unwilling to accept defeat after losing key cities, scattered into the countryside, attempting to continue their stubborn resistance through guerrilla warfare.

Regrettably, the Hungarian public did not endorse this tactic. In the eyes of the ordinary people, the Habsburg dynasty was their protector, whereas the Hungarian Republican Government was seen as a predatory administration composed of nobles and capitalists.

Instead of sparking a people's war, it was the very citizenry that quelled the attempt.

It can be said that Franz's land redistribution campaign in Hungary was very successful, managing to pin all of Austria's past atrocities on the Hungarian self-government.