Hungarians at Ottoman service

[Tosun Saral]

I sympathize also many Great Croats (Hırvat) who served for Ottoman Empire.

[Tosun Saral]

Macar Osman Paşa (Osman Pasha the Hungarian) with family ( master sergeant Adolf Farkas, some sourses say Sandor Farkas)

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Turkish Red Crescent Society issued a poststamp in 1968 for the 100th Anniversary of the establisment of the society.

[Tosun Saral]

İskender Bey
Gustave Adolf Frits (Fritsch) (Zalatna 1819-Diyarbekir/East Turkey 1881)
A german nobleman.
Joined to military school in 1836.
Under Lt at 31st Infantry Regiment of KuK Army in 1846
... In Oct 22nd 1848 deserted from his KUK Regiment and joined to Honvéd Army of the Hungarian Freedoom Fighters under command of Kossuth.
Captain at the Composed Battalion established by the rest of 61st and 62nd Inf.Regigents of the Bacska Army Corps in Feb. 6th 1849.
On March of 1849 staff officer of the 3rd AC.
On 30th March Staff Major of 1st AC then at foprtification at Arat. During surrender of Arad on Aug.17th 1849 to Austrian-Russians was taken POW. But escaped from captivity soon and refuced to Ottoman Turkish soil.
On Oct 25th 1849 he was taken to the Turkish Fort Vidin on Danube with other exiles. According to Turkish registration aouthorities At Shumen (Shumlu) he was registered as Lt. Col. on Jan. 1850. Like thousands of Hungarian and Polish exiles He also converted to islam
and was named Iskender (Akexander) .
Then he joined to Ottoman Turkish Army. He was a Turkish Regiment commander during Cremean War.
On 1864 he was promotedto the rank of Miralay (Colonel)
On 1877 secsion chief at Turkish War Ministry.
HE MARRIED TO AMALIA HEBELT, A HUNGARİAN PIANO TEACHER AT THE HAREM OF THE SULTAN

[maxnechitaylov]

György Kmety (Felsőpokorágy, May 24, 1813 – London, April 25, 1865) was a general in the Hungarian army, and in the Turkish army under the name Isma'il pasha.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... clnk&gl=uk

But in this photo not the Hungarian, but the Egyptian Ismail pasha, commander of the Egyptian division (April 1855, Crimea).
Real “dear old” Kmety was at Kars (as commander of irregular cavalry) from the autumn of 1854 till the surrender of fortress in November 1855. For example, in February and March 1855 he certainly was at Kars (exactly, at advanced posts).

[jenniib]

I thank you Tosun Saral for your interesting post about Iskender Bey Fritsch. I am a family history researcher living in Australia and have been hunting for information to understand something about the history at the time. You have really enlightened me with your profiles of Hungarians in the Ottoman service.
I am in touch with an English descendant of Iskender Bey Fritsch whose younger daughter Ann Amalia Fritsch married an English diplomat Arthur David Alban. They lived in Egypt and England. Iskender Bery Fritsch's older daughter Angele Fritsch married a French-English aristocrat Valery Theobald Guillaume De Vismes and lived in Paris. My contact is Iskender Bey Fritsch's great great grand daughter.


Jenni Ibrahim in Perth, Western Australia

[Tosun Saral]

György Kmety (Felsőpokorágy, May 24, 1813 – London, April 25, 1865) was a general in the Hungarian army, and in the Turkish army under the name Isma'il pasha.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... clnk&gl=uk

But in this photo not the Hungarian, but the Egyptian Ismail pasha, commander of the Egyptian division (April 1855, Crimea).
Real “dear old” Kmety was at Kars (as commander of irregular cavalry) from the autumn of 1854 till the surrender of fortress in November 1855. For example, in February and March 1855 he certainly was at Kars (exactly, at advanced posts).

Yes Sir He is Kymety İsmail Pasha I recognize him even at the judgement day.

[maxnechitaylov]

As you wish
BUT it doesn't change that fact that in the photo the Egyptian, but not the Hungarian.

at the judgement day

God forbid, of course...

[Tosun Saral]

Max I can not wait till jugement day. I must confess that you are right.

[maxnechitaylov]

OK.

[maxnechitaylov]

By the way, if you wish:

Dénes A. Jánossy, Die ungarische Emigration und der Krieg im Orient // Archivum Europae Centro-Orientalis. 1939. T. V. Fasc. 1-4.
http://epa.oszk.hu/02600/02625/00008/pd ... 13-275.pdf