-Colonel in the Active Army, and at the same time charged by
Bem with the command of a portion of his division. His most heroic deed
was the battle of Ploki. Bem, at the head of a very small but audacious
band, arrived victorious before Herrmannstadt, capital of the province;
but there, surrounded and pressed by an overpowering number of enemies,
he commissioned Kemenyi to march to the frontier, and take up a
reinforcement. He immediately undertook that march, pierced the lines of
the enemy, drew on the reinforcements, and a few days after, delivered
that memorable battle in which, with 2,000 men and seven guns, he beat
the whole Austrian force, consisting of 15,000 men and thirty cannons,
out of the field. By this victory he not only averted the destruction of
Transylvania, which a day before still appeared inevitable, but he also
gave to Bem opportunity to establish that grand line of offensive
operations which, in less than a month, swept Transylvania clear of the
enemy. For the valor displayed in this decisive action, he was made
Colonel, and received the order of valor, second class, having been
decorated some time before with the same order of the third class. He
took also a glorious part in all the important battles of the summer
campaign. He was one of those superior officers of the Transylvanian
army to whom Bem was mostly attached, and, possessing his entire
confidence, were steadfast till the last moment. On the termination of
the war, although proscribed, he lived for some time at his native
place; but, searched for every where, he at last was obliged to fly to
England. After Kossuth's arrival in London he became president of the
administration of the Hungarian emigration. When he took the management,
it was already in bad circumstances, but on the departure of Kossuth he
had to overcome greater difficulties, because his solicitude extended
itself not only to the emigrants residing in England, but to those who
languished in France and Belgium. Notwithstanding the loss of his
estates by sequestration, he still possessed some pecuniary means, and
assisted, as far as he could, his distressed countrymen; and during the
short time of his administration, he was always acting, with paternal
care, for the good of his unhappy companions. Baron Kemenyi died
suddenly in London, on Monday, the 5th of January, while listening to
the reading of a letter respecting the management of his committee,
addressed to the _Daily New