Surrender at Világos
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The surrender of the main Hungarian army under Artúr Görgei to the Russian general Rüdiger at Világos (today Șiria in Romania) on 13 August 1849, regarded as the formal end of the Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence.
In depth
After the Russian intervention the Hungarians were heavily outnumbered, and after the defeat at Temesvár on 9 August their only choices were surrender or annihilation. On 11 August Kossuth handed full power to Görgei, who, with fewer than 30,000 men, decided after a council of war to lay down arms before the Russians. The document of surrender was signed at Bohus Castle. Görgei tried to show that Hungary had been defeated by Russia and not by Austria, but the Russians handed the army over to the Austrians.
Some troops and fortresses held out after the surrender but gave in one after another within weeks: the fortress of Arad on 17 August, Pétervárad on 7 September and Komárom, held by Klapka, on 2 October. Despite the Russian emperor's pleas for clemency the Austrians sentenced hundreds to death. Görgei was spared at Russia's insistence, but Kossuth denounced him from Vidin as "Hungary's Judas", and he long bore the stigma of treason.