Battle of Schwechat

Battle of Schwechat
Part of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848

"The Battle of Schwechat" by Franz Xaver Zalder
Date30 October 1848
Location
Schwechat, near Vienna, Austria
Result

Croatian-Austrian victory

  • Hungarian advance on Vienna failed[1]
Belligerents
 Hungarian Revolutionary Army

 Austrian Empire

Commanders and leaders
 János Móga
 Artúr Görgei
 Richard Guyon		  Josip Jelačić
 Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz
 Prince Franz de Paula of Liechtenstein
Strength
27,655 men
82 cannons[2]		 33,000 men[3]
75 cannons[4]
Casualties and losses
200-800[5] 22 dead
59/62 wounded
8/12 missing[4]

The Battle of Schwechat was a battle in the Hungarian war of Independence of 1848-1849, fought on 30 October 1848 between the revolutionary Hungarian Army led by Lieutenant General János Móga against the army of the Austrian Empire led by Lieutenant General Josip Jelačić, at Schwechat, near Vienna. This was the last battle of 1848 in the Transdanubian campaign. The Hungarian Army wanted to relieve the revolutionaries from Vienna, besieged by the Austrian imperial army, but they were defeated. Vienna fell on the next day.

  1. ^ Rady 2023, p. 338.
  2. ^ Hermann 2011, p. Appendix.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Hermann2013a was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b Hermann 2013, p. 39.
  5. ^ Hermann 2013, p. 38.