János Bottyán also known as Blind Bottyán, Vak Bottyán János was a Hungarian

Kingdom of Hungary

The Kingdom of Hungary comprised present-day Hungary, Slovakia and Croatia , Transylvania , Carpatho Ruthenia , Vojvodina , Burgenland , and other smaller territories surrounding present-day Hungary's borders...

 kuruc

Kuruc

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 general.

Bottyán was born into a poor noble family of protestant religion, but lately he became one of the generals of the Kuruc

Kuruc

The kuruc was a term used to denote the armed anti-Habsburg rebels in Royal Hungary between 1671 and 1711....

 army. His nickname was "Blind Bottyán" because in the Turkish–Hungarian wars He lost one of his eye.
He fought against the Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

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s under the Habsburg

Habsburg

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s in the liberation of Buda

Buda

For detailed information see: History of Buda CastleBuda is the western part of the Hungarian capital Budapest on the west bank of the Danube. The name Buda takes its name from the name of Bleda the Hun ruler, whose name is also Buda in Hungarian.Buda comprises about one-third of Budapest's...

. In 1704 he became a general in the Rákóczi's War for Independence

Rákóczi's War for Independence

Rákóczi's War for Independence was the first significant attempt to topple therule of Habsburg Austria over Hungary. The war was fought by a group of noblemen, wealthy and high-ranking progressives and was led by Francis II Rákóczi Rákóczi's War for Independence (1703–1711) was the first...

 against the Habsburgs under Prince Prince Rákóczi Ferenc

Francis II Rákóczi

Francis II Rákóczi Hungarian aristocrat, he was the leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburgs in 1703-11 as the prince of the Estates Confederated for Liberty of the Kingdom of Hungary. He was also Prince of Transylvania, an Imperial Prince, and a member of the Order of the Golden...

. He is referred to as "blind" because he lost an eye while fighting the Ottomans.