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JELAČIĆ, JOSIP (1801–1859), Croatian military leader.

Josip Jelačić served as Ban (governor) of Croatia and head of the armies of Croatia and the Croatian-Slavonian sections of the Habsburg military frontier during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848–1849.

In his military capacity, he led Habsburg forces against the revolutionary Hungarian government. He enjoys a mixed legacy as a Croatian patriot, archconservative, and rabid Hungarophobe.

Jelačić was born on 16 October 1801, in the town of Petrovaradin.

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He was educated in Vienna at the Theresianum. In 1819 he was commissioned an officer in the Habsburg army. In 1830 he was named commander of the 7th Regiment in Ogulin (in the military frontier). He later served under Joseph Radetzky in northern Italy, in Dalmatia, and finally as the commander of the 1st Banal Regiment in Glina.

He is said to have only been truly at home among his frontiersmen. During the years before 1848, he developed a profound Croatian patrioti