Note 20 — Chapter XI · THE DEATH STRUGGLE OF FREEDOM.—OCTOBER 1848-AUGUST 1849.

I must admit that my estimate of Görgei is, in many respects, lower than that of men whose opportunities of observing the facts, and whose general candour of judgment entitles their opinion to great respect. I can only plead that the severest judgments which I have passed upon him are founded upon his own memoirs; that is, partly upon the facts narrated in them, and partly upon the tone in which they are written. [20]