The Battle of Tiszabecs, 1703 ⚔️ Rákóczi's War of Independence (Part 1)

May 1703.

It had been four years since the Peace of Karlowitz ended the Great Turkish War. The Ottoman Empire yielded the entirety of Hungary and large parts of Transylvania to the Habsburg Dynasty.
In Poland, a group of Hungarian Kuruc-rebels requested Hungary's once-richest man, the exiled Prince Ferenc Rakoczi II of Transylvania, to lead their rebellion. Following this visit, Rakoczi declared that "All nobility and non-noble citizens of Hungary" should rise against Habsburg rule. The Prince faced one of the mightiest dynasties Europe had ever seen. Initially, with nothing more than a rag-tag bunch of poorly equipped peasants and freebooters. Against all odds, his subsequent rebellion lasted eight years, capturing most of the Kingdom. It became known as Rakoczi's War of Independence.

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:12 Hungary under Habsburg Rule
9:18 The Battle of Tiszabecs

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[rafalx]

Im from Poland and when I see Hungarians fighting for their freedom I always give thumb up!

[GM-osfo]

There is a very similar event to this in hungarian history, happened 100 years earlier, called Bocskai uprising and hajduk
Bocskai was prince of transilvania too
Hungarians say this was the first attempt to get back the independence
Wish you could cover this content in future
Great vid anyway!! :) thank you

[Tomtomtomtomtomtomtomkg]

As a Hungarian i must say thankyou for your time and effort that you put into these videos

[yourcasualservantofsauron]

I’ve always been interested in Hungarian history, as they are placed in such an interesting place, at the crossroads of Central and Eastern Europe, with the southeastern part of Europe influencing them as well.

[bflawless]

You’re videos on the history of Prussia instantly hooked me to your channel, some of the greatest history docs on YouTube at the moment. Great work can’t wait to see more

[marccan]

Fascinating, I heard about Rakoczi but I didn't know he was part Croatian as a member of the Zrinski family . This story is completely ignored in Croatian historiography, but it would be interesting to find out what would have happened if Rakoczi had succeeded in his plan.

[TheRattlefinger]

I don't want to nitpick on non-important things, but I will :) The "c" at the end of "Ferenc" and "kuruc" is pronounced exactly as the "cz" in "Rákóczi". Anyway, thank you for making these videos, they are great!

[bradward]

I am Australian and I enjoy listening to the narrative and reading the comments as trying to pronounce the names of people and towns is unfamiliar and sometimes difficult as the spelling seems at odds with the spoken word. I have no doubt that the history described within these videos are extremely important to those descended from these events, however, sometimes when I read the comments where a correction is provided it is as if the commentary is excessively critical. I fully understand that its difficult to be 100% correct and get everything perfect and that not all people will agree with the result. As a person who lives on the other side of the world, this is one of the best history channels on YouTube. I appreciate the fact that someone has taken the time to educate me on aspects of history that I was unaware of.

[killerkid]

Great video! Please continue, this is a bit of Hungarian history overshadowed by the larger events in Europe. But still could make a great series if interwoven by other significant events throughout the continent.

[theredtiger]

Its quite funny in a humble way to see a video about my home region and its arguably most famous event. Thanks for the video, it was well done. :)

I dont know what sources you are using, but if you - or one of your teammate - can understand Hungarian, then I highly recommend you Csatáry György's and Kész Barna's works about the independence war in Transcarpathia. They are highly renown in Hungary and they are also from Transcarpathia, even teaching in Ferenc Rakoczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian College of Higher Education - hell Kész Barna was born and lives in Salánk, the neighbor city of Tiszabecs.

And maybe a little correction: if you are using the Hungarian names of the cities, then Berehovo should be Beregszász (Berehovo is the Ukrainian name of the city which was used only from 1946-47, after the USSR took it from Czechoslovakia)

[vectorstrike]

12:29 Damn, very few things must feel worse than being abandoned by your comrades and having no escape route

[justkornel]

I really appreciate your videos about lesser known battles of Hungary and the fact that you pay a great deal of attention towards historical places and place names, but sometimes I'm a bit confused by the side by side usage of modern day names. Like ex. you use the historically correct names for Salánk, Dolha, Tiszaújlak etc., but aslo Berehovo instead of Beregszász, Satu Mare instead of Szatmárnémeti or just Szatmár. It's just a minor detail which caught my attention, overall a great video, as always!

[stormyprawn]

This channel's awesome. Consistently high-quality videos coming out one after the other.

[fehervari]

Excellent video, can't wait for what follows!

Just a small thing: Bratislava wasn't called as such until the 20th century. Could you please use either its German or Hungarian name instead, Preßburg or Pozsony?

Maybe consistently using historical German names might be the best.

Another minor thing: Kuruc is pronounced as "kurutz", not kuruch.

Best wishes!

[townazier]

Very interesting choice of topic! Right inbetween the big events having some context and foreshadowing what we've seen before.

[SamTheEnglishTeacher]

Good feedback from the Hungarian contingent in these comments, looks like they're well-taken by House of History.
Magyar has a reputation as being such a difficult language and the area has such a complicated history - hopefully we can get more Hungarian input in the production of the next videos in the series 🙂
My maternal line is Hungarian, but being born and raised on the other side of the world for two generations, I have approximately zero knowledge of the history of my ancestors. Will follow this series closely 🙂

[keplegenny]

I just watched to this story as sitting home next to Rákóczi út in Budapest my hometown

[szalard]

Thank you very much for this great video.

[gergelykocsis]

Hey - love your videos. Wanted to mention, that the 'c' at the end of Ferenc is pronounced the same as as the 'cz' in Rákóczi. The sound you pronounce in the video would be written as 'cs' (Like in Bercsényi, or Munkács) in Hungarian. So the pronounciation of his name is something like Ferencz Rákóczi if that makes sense (same with Kuruc - It is also pronounced as ~Kurucz). Otherwise you are doing a very good job of pronouncing Hungarian names, which is quite a feat! :D

[amtmannb.]

That's a small surprise for me. But I find the War of Rákóczi very interesting and remember the comics from the 1970s in the GDR (Mosaik) where I first met Rákóczi as a positive figure and could read the novel about captain Tenkes. Great video. Thank you for your great work.