Robert Nisbet Bain, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 15… (1911)
“ Though his separatist measures at first brought him into disfavour at the imperial court, their true objective was soon recognized, and, with the triumph of the more violent elements of the Hungarian revolution, he was hailed as the most conspicuous champion of the unity of the empire, and was able to bring about that union of the imperial army with the southern Slavs by which the revolution in Vienna and Budapest was overthrown (see Austria-Hungary: History) . He began the war of independence in September 1848 by crossing the Drave at the head of 40,000 Croats. ”
