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He joined in the affair after the Revolution, in May. Enlisted to the military and Captain Görgey was entrusted with various organizational tasks, like recruiting, training, obtaining equipment and ammunition, and setting up the manufacturing of these. Right during these times he was noticed by Kossuth Lajos, minister of finance in the revolutionary government, then the prime minster/president of the second cabinet, and later governor himself, a great revolutionary, a central political figure, and who would deserve his own piece of discourse. Kossuth played an important part in Görgey's career arch and he became the source of blame which was shifted onto Görgey in the end. He probably both admired and feared the soldier's capabilities.
Then the first attack came on behalf of the Court, in 1848 September Jelacic, Croat Ban, moved against Budapest. Further to the East marched the troops of General Roth, whose job was to join Jelacic. Major Görgey commanded the vanguard of a unit entrusted to halt Roth and prevent the plan. First he forced to surrender Roth's vanguard, then helped to encircle Roth himself.
Jelacic was defeated and had to retreat toward Vienna moar liek Yellowcic amirite, where the October Revolution had just started. Colonel Görgey, attached to the main army, followed. On the occasion the Hungarian leadership committed a great blunder (well, it's more complicated than that, but it is out of our scope now). At the Austrian border our pursuing army was halted to lament if they have the right to enter. And by the time they decided that hell yeah we should help the Viennese revolutionaries, the uprising was quenched and the Kaiserlich troops could face the Hungarian army alone, on their terms, and from both quantitative and qualitative superiority. Here the fate of both Austria and Hungary could have been decided and the whole inconvenience stopped, but instead our host was defeated and the struggle got prolonged. The battle was at Schwechat (1848 October 30), where Major General Görgey was now in command on the centre or the army. The battle was hopeless, he could only cover the retreat of his infantry with his cavalry, preventing their total destruction.