Studia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Umanistice (Apr 2019)
RĂZBOAIELE UITATE ALE ROMÂNILOR LA 1848-1849
Abstract
Romanian historiography has traditionally described the revolutions of 1848 in the Romanian Lands by their Transylvanian, Wallachian and Moldavian programmers. While Russian historiography denies the existence of a Romanian 1848 revolution by itself, Hungarian historiography calls it a counter-revolution. Meanwhile, insisting on the obvious programmatic unity of the 1848 revolutions in all Romanian territories (but constantly forgetting blind spots like Bessarabia, Bukovina, Serbian Banat), our historiography paid almost no attention to other main aspects.Thus, the military component of the Romanians’ revolutions of 1848-1849, generally neglected by historians, is revealed in this study. It approaches the Romanian military operations (from one shot battles to a classic war, from folk arming and training in camps to guerilla fights in the mountains), unfolded during the revolutionary years in the Romanian Lands, that is in all the territories with a Romanian demographic majority inside and outside the borders of nowadays Romania.In Transylvania, the so-called “civil war” between the Romanians and Hungarians was in fact a regular and “classic” one year war, being recently defined as a national defense war of the Romanians. Less known war episodes in Great Wallachia and Small Wallachia (Oltenia), as well as the armed resistance in Moldavia and the military camp in Grozești (today Oituz), in the Curvature Capathians, are also described. The military events were closely connected to the Romanians’ fight both for national independence, as a way out of the severe Russian protectorate imposed to the Romanian Principalities, and for unification of all those speaking the Romanian language into a single national state.
