Harry Hill Bandholtz (1864 – May 11, 1925) was a United States Army Major General during World War I, and the US representative of the Inter-Allied Military Mission in Hungary in 1919. He is famous for preventing Romanian soldiers from removing Transylvanian treasures from the National Museum of Hungary in Budapest during the Romanian occupation of the city in 1919.
Read more about Harry Hill Bandholtz: Life, Memorial in Budapest
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