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• Motivating Factors in Foreign Volunteering: Tibor Péchy’s Enlistment in the Anglo-Boer War

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  Gábor Szabó-Zsoldos

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  Twelve Hungarian volunteers have been identified so far among the 2,500 pro-Boer
  foreign volunteers who were ready to sacrifice their lives in the war between the Boer
  republics and the British Empire (1899–1902). The overwhelming majority of these
  volunteers travelled to South Africa to join the commandos of the Boers following the
  escalation of the conflict. Tibor Péchy was one of the Hungarian combatants, but in
  contrast with the other Hungarian volunteers, he had been living in South Africa since
  1896. This makes him a special Hungarian participant of the Anglo-Boer War. The present
  paper analyses the motivating factors behind Péchy’s enlistment with the Boers.

• Een Hongaarse putschist in Suriname

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  Michiel van Kempen

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  23

  Frans Pavel Killinger was a Hungarian military and policeman, who tried to set up a coup d’état in 1901 in Suriname, colony of the Netherlands. He strongly criticized the corrupt late-colonial system and poor living conditions in Suriname, and visioned a state without army and with better living conditions for the people, led by himself. The attempt was unveiled and Killinger and his compatriots were sentenced to death. He was pardoned, spent some years in prison, and joined the Turkish army.