DesewffyBorn 1802 at Csákány (Abaúj County). The peace era in the 'thirties made promotions slow, thus he went into retirement as a captain in 1839. His wife and children dead, rejoined the army in 1848. First in the mounted national guard, later with the Honvéd. He commanded the 1st Corps, later the 9th. On July 5 1849 remarried, but promptly returned to the battlefield. After the defeat at Temesvár he did not escape to Turkey on the advice of his friend, the Prince of Liechtenstein. He was granted no clemency, however.