The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years.
Lajos KossuthAbout author
- Author's profession: Lawyer
- Nationality: hungarian
- Born: September 19, 1802
- Died: March 20, 1894
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