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A Worthy Burial Ground For Dániel Ihász, A Faithful Companion In Arms

On 14th April 1881 the Hungarian patriot Lajos Kossuth, exiled in Turin after the demise of the short lived Hungarian Republic, bought a burial plot for his friend Dániel Ihász, noble knight of the Hungarian community and colonel of one of the two brigades of the Hungarian army in Italy.

Kossuth had the inscription engraved on the grave, a neoclassical aedicule, which commemorates his  32 years in exile from Hungary and the great friendship with Dániel Ihasz:
 

Paratlan hûségû barátja / a / szamkivetes ne serveiben 32 even at / tantorithatlan osztályosa / a magyar szabadsagharcz / egyik kitûnõ bajnoka / Ihászi Ihász Dániel / ezeredes / emlékének / gyászoló barátja / Kossuth Lajos / halas kegyeuettel emelte.

Which translates as:

A friend of unparalleled trust, an undaunted companion for 32 years in the painful and disastrous years of exile, one of the best champions of the Hungarian War of Independence, his grieving friend, Lajos Kossuth erected this monument as a grateful homage in memory of Colonel Ihászi Ihász Dániel. 

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