same name from a long Austrian siege. The Austrian imperial forces and their Croatian, Romanian and Serbian allies are chased out from Hungary, or near the borders of the country. April 27 – Giuseppe Garibaldi enters Rome, to defend it from the French troops of General Charles Oudinot. May – The Second Carlist War ends in Spain. May 2 – Hungarian Revolution of 1848: A new independent Hungarian government, led by Bertalan Szemere, is formed. The head of state of Hungary becomes Lajos Kossuth, as governor president. May 3 The May Uprising in Dresden, last of the German revolutions of 1848–49, begins. Richard Wagner is among the participants. The Mississippi River levee at Sauvé's Crevasse breaks, flooding much of New Orleans. May 9 – The May Uprising in Dresden is suppressed by the Kingdom of Saxony. May 10 – The Astor Place Riot takes place in Manhattan, over a dispute between two Shakespearean actors; over 20 people are killed. May 15 – Troops of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies take Palermo, and crush the republican government of Sicily. May 17 – The St. Louis Fire starts when a steamboat catches fire and nearly burns down the entire city. May 21 – Hungarian Revolution of 1848: The Hungarian army, led by Arthur Görgey, captures the Castle of Buda, liberating the Hungarian capital city completely. The leader of the defending Austrian forces, General Heinrich Hentzi, dies because of his injuries. The Hungarian government moves back from Debrecen to Budapest. May 30 – Hungarian Revolution of 1848: Julius Jacob von Haynau replaces Ludwig von Welden as leader of the Austrian forces in Hungary, because of the failure of the latter to stop the advance of the Hungarian forces. June 5 Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy. Hungarian Revolution of 1848: The first Russian troops, led by Lieutenant General Fyodor Sergeyevich Panyutin, who come in the aid of the Habsburgs, cross the Hungarian border at Pozsony, in order to crush the Hungarian revolution. June 6 – The settlement of Fort Worth, Texas, is founded. June 17 – Hungarian Revolution of 1848: The main Russian forces, led by Ivan Paskevich, cross the Hungarian border, and together with the Austrian troops, led by Julius Jacob von Haynau, start the final attack against the Hungarian Revolution. Now the Hungarian revolutionary troops, numbering 173,000 soldiers, which even before the Russian attack were in inferiority regarding their numbers, and