Battle of Kotor

Battle of Kotor
Part of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848
Date17 October 1848
Location
Kotor, Zala County, Kingdom of Hungary, today part of Međimurje County Croatia
Result Hungarian victory
Belligerents
 Hungarian Revolutionary Army

Austrian Empire

Commanders and leaders
 András Gáspár
 Mór Perczel		 Georg Bornemissza †
Strength
1,526+? men
297 horses
6 cannons[1][2]		 ~1,900 men
1 cannon[3]
Casualties and losses
3 dead
4 wounded[3]		 100 + ? dead or wounded
200 captured[3]

The Battle of Kotor took place during the Hungarian War of Independence of 1848-1849 on 17 October 1848 between the Hungarian Revolutionary Army under the command of Major András Gáspár and the Croatian troops under Colonel Captain Georg Bornemissza, defending the Muraköz/Međimurje region. Mór Perczel, the leader of the Hungarian brigade which attacked Muraköz, split his troops in two, and while his detachment defeated the Croatian troops defending the line of the Mura River in the Battle of Letenye, the other column defeated the Croatians at Kotor. As a result of these victories, Perczel's troops liberated Muraköz.

  1. ^ Hermann 2004, pp. 114.
  2. ^ Hermann 2001, pp. 157.
  3. ^ a b c Hermann 2001, pp. 158.