Battle of Pered

Battle of Pered
Part of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848
Date 20–21 June 1849 Location around and in Pered Kingdom of Hungary (now Tešedíkovo, Slovakia) Result Austro-Russian victory
Belligerents
Hungarian Revolutionary Army	Austrian Empire  Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Artúr Görgei Lajos Asbóth  Károly Leiningen-Westerburg  György Klapka	Ludwig von Wohlgemuth  Anton Csorich  Feodor Sergeyevich Panyutyin
Strength
Total: 25,286/23,727 men - II. corps: 8,059/6,500 - III. corps: 9,395 - VIII. corps: 7,832 113 cannons Did not participate I. corps: 7261 men 30 cannons[1]	Total: 39,500 men - II. corps: 13,500[2] - IV. (reserve) corps: 14,000 - Panyutyin division: 12,799 172 cannons[1]
Casualties and losses
Total: 2,878 men - 126 dead - 180 wounded - 2,572 missing and captured 7 cannons	Total: 668 men - 131 dead - 415 wounded - 122 missing and captured 260 cannons[1]

The Battle of Pered, fought on 20–21 June 1849, was one of the battles which took place in the Summer Campaign of the Hungarian War of Independence from 1848 to 1849, fought between the Hungarian Revolutionary Army and the Habsburg Empire helped by Russian troops. The Hungarian army was led by General^[3] Artúr Görgei, while the imperial army by Lieutenant field marshal Julius Jacob von Haynau. After several preliminary minor battles of the Hungarian and Austrian troops along the Vág river, in which the attacking Hungarians could not achieve success, Görgei took the command of his troops, and after receiving reinforcements, on 20 June, put his troops to attack again towards West. Although the II. Hungarian army corps occupied in heavy fights the village of Pered, the other two corps (the III. and the VIII.) were unsuccessful, and could not advance. The angered Görgei removed the commander of the III. corps, General Károly Knezić because of his inactivity, and Colonel Lajos Asbóth, the commander of the II. corps who, in contrast to Knezić, was the only commander who accomplished his duties. While Knezić's place was taken by Colonel Károly Leiningen-Westerburg, who was a great choice, Asbóth's place was taken by Colonel József Kászonyi, who was an explicitly bad choice. Haynau, who on the first day of the battle was moving the bulk of his troops to cross the Danube to start an attack on its southern bank, sent three of his corps, which were still on the northern bank, to repel the Hungarian forces. The two Austrian (II., IV.) and one Russian (Fedor Panyutin's) corps started their attack on 21 June and forced the Hungarians to retreat from Pered and Zsigárd, which forced Görgei to order his troops to retreat from the battlefield.