Battle of Biskupice
| Battle of Biskupice | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of Rákóczi's War of Independence | |||||||
| |||||||
| Belligerents | |||||||
 Kurucs (Kingdom of Hungary) |
 Denmark-Norway | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
|
László Ocskay brigadier Lőrinc Pekry general |
 Colonel Peter Viard Major Adam Frederik Trampe | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| Unknown | 1,400 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Unknown | Heavy | ||||||
The Battle of Biskupice (Hungarian: Püspöki csata; German: Schlacht bei Bischdorf; Slovak: Bitka pri Biskupiciach) took place between the Kuruc (Hungarians) and the Danish auxiliaries of the Habsburg army on 21 April 1704.
The battle
[edit]In March 1704, the Austrian commander Hannibal Heister merged with other Imperial troops (Germans, Danes, Serbs) near Komárom (present-day Komárno, Slovakia). The Austrian plan was to clean the Great Rye Island from Kuruc troops. However, this region had joined Rákóczi's rebellion in 1703, and Kuruc forces now threatened Komárom, Pressburg and the Moravian border.
After General Johann von Ritschan had to retreat from Pressburg (Bratislava) to Moravia, on orders from Vienna in order to better secure the Moravian border and Moravia, Heister sent German Colonel Viard and Danish Major Adam Frederik Trampe to Pressburg with an army of 1,400 men, mostly Danes, to replace him.
The Kurucs under Lőrinc Pekry and László Ocskay (by instruction of general Miklós Bercsényi) attacked by surprise the marching Danes near Püspöki (today Podunajské Biskupice, Slovakia) inflicting quite heavy losses on them. However, they could not prevent the surviving Danes from reaching Pressburg.
The Kuruc army also stormed the ramparts near Gutta (present-day Kolárovo, Slovakia).
On 28 April, in the battle of Nárazd, Heister pushed back the Kuruc army.