The European forces at left-heavy cavalry and armor-are ponderous and weary from looting and their long march.

At the battle of Pozsonyi (Pressburg) on the Danube in summer 907 C.E, about 30,000 Hungarian irregulars, mostly farmers called from tending their fields, defeated an invading army of more than 100,000 German, French, and Italian professional soldiers.

Inspired by a photo of the first moments of the 1956 revolution, the painting depicts a jubilant, unorganized crowd of Hungarian civilians shortly after they seized a Soviet tank outside of the Hungarian Parliament in Pest.

Depicts a disabled Soviet tank, shattered and burning apartments on Circle Avenue - the great ring road through the center of Pest, once one of its most beautiful streets

The city, named for its white castle is today's Belgrade, in Serbia, but in 1456 it was the seat of government for Hungary and the southern reaches of the Danube. Turkey's Sultan Mohamed Julius IV besieged the city with an army of 150,000 soldiers.

As King from 997-1038, Stephen (who was canonized 83 years after his death) Christianized Hungary and gained recognition of its independence from Pope Sylvester II in the form of a crown and title, "King by the Grace of God."

Andrew II, 1205-1235, was politically corrupt and economically inept. His alienation of Hungarian nobility led to rebellion in 1213.

Mathias (1458-1490) was literally a Renaissance man: a soldier and humanist and patron of the arts, sciences, and church, he sponsored the famed Buda Picture Chronicle and united Central Europe politically and economically.

In 1526 Suleiman the Magnificent lead an army of 300,000 Turks on a quest ot conquer the world. He failed.

In 2006, when this painting was installed ni the Museum of Hungarian Military History with the other early works of the Millecentennial Suite, Hungarians celebrated the history of their heroic uprising against a brutal, Communist regime.

With the flag as its pinnacle, Eva Makk has celebrated her nation and her family.

After its victorious Freedom Fight, Hungary was an independent, free, and neutral nation for 13 days, from October 23 until November 4, 1956.