On 26 July, Mészáros resigned from all his remaining military functions, because he did not agree with the way Mór Perczel commanded the parts of the army under his control.

After the Battle of Temesvár, and the ensuing failure of the war of independence, he left Hungary on 14 August 1849 for Turkey.

In the summer of 1853, he moved to the United States, where he tried farming in Iowa, and eventually settled in Flushing, New York.

The last Soviet soldiers – always seen by Hungarians as the successors of the Imperial Russian Army that crushed the Revolution 1848 – had left Hungary just months before.

The caption of his grave in Titley, England To the memory of General Lázár Mészáros Minister of war And Commander in Chief Of the Hungarian Army in 1848–1849.

Who was born at Baja in the county of Bács 1796 and died at Eywood 6-th November 1858 in the 63 year of his age and 10-th of his exile.

This stone is inscribed by his sorrowing friend J. E. H. Lady Langdale Mészáros Lázár Tábornoknak, A jó Hazafinak, A vitéz Katonának A nemes Barátnak.

It means: To General Lázár Mészáros, the good Patriot, the valiant Soldier, the noble Friend.)