3-074-561 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Riots in Croatia: Hussars dispersing rioters at Agram, 1883. 'The serious riots and conflicts with the military, almost threatening a determined insurrection, which have recently broken out in the Province of Croatia, part of the dominions annexed to Hungary in the Dual Constitution of the Austrian Empire, have been reported in the daily papers. Agram, the capital of this Province, about three hundred miles south of Vienna, is a town of twenty thousand people; and the deplorable excesses of the mob, chiefly formed of peasants from the neighbouring country, which is in a very rough condition, were repressed by a charge of the Hussars, wielding their sabres with severe effect, and not without some loss of life on both sides. We present an Illustration of this sad affair, which had been preceded by fierce acts of popular violence at Krapina and other places, in the mountainous district between the rivers Drave and Save, but the political or social causes of the revolt are not yet fully explained'. Agram is former name for Zagreb'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.