Tomb of the Hungarian Army Lieutenant Colonel Alajos Sebő Szini

Colonel Alajos Sebő Szini was born in 1811 in the village of Csiliznyárad. He served as a soldier in the imperial army from 1829. During the Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence of 1848/49, he fought in the ranks of the Hungarian army as a lieutenant colonel of the 13th Hussar Regiment. His name was made famous by the Battle of Tápióbicske on April 4, 1849, when he defeated his former friend, Baron Riedesel, who was fighting in the Austrian army, in a duel on the battlefield, and thus turned the tide of the battle that was about to be lost from the Hungarian point of view. The legendary duelist was portrayed by Mór Jókai in his novel Sons of the Stone-Hearted Man as Richárd Baradlay. After the War of Independence, Lieutenant Colonel Sebő Szini was first sentenced to death, and then the sentence was amended to 16 years of imprisonment. He was released in 1853 and subsequently settled in Bős as a farmer. He died on October 12, 1882, at the age of 73. He was buried in the cemetery of his native village, Csiliznyárad. After World War II, his grave and the tombstone on it were neglected for a while. After 1990, at first there were only silent commemorations at the grave, which was renovated by the Csiliznyárad Municipality in the fall of 1994 and then re-carved in 1997. In the same year (summer of 1997), representatives of the Tápióbicske and Csiliznyárad Municipalities paid their respects together for the first time at the grave of Lieutenant Colonel Alajos Színi Sebő, which marked the beginning of the friendly cooperation between the two settlements that has lasted ever since.