Source: cleveland.com
WASHINGTON, D.C. — “The cause of America, in great measure, is the cause of all mankind,” remarked Thomas Paine in his pamphlet “Common Sense,” published in the consequential year of 1776. Paine addressed the common man in America, but the heroic struggle of the colonists for their traditional rights against despotic imperial overreach inspired millions worldwide, including those living under Habsburg rule in central Europe.
A painting by artist Sándor Bodó of Michael Kováts de Fabriczy, a Hungarian nobleman who fought with the American side in the American Revolution and was killed in battle.
