Battle of Petrovaradin

Part of Austro-Turkish War of 1716–18

Date	August 5, 1716
Location	Petrovaradin, Military Frontier, Habsburg Monarchy
Result	Decisive Habsburg victory

Belligerents

Habsburg Empire (with the forces from the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary and the Habsburg Kingdom of Croatia)

Duchy of Württemberg

Ottoman Empire

Crimean Khanate

Kuruc renegades

Commanders and leaders

Prince Eugene of Savoy
Infante Manuel, Count of Ourém
János Pállfy general
Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg

Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha †

Strength

60,000-91,300 (41,000 Austrian, ca. 42,000 Hungarian and Croatian border soldiers ca. 8,000 Serbian garrison troops)

150,000
1,000 Kuruc cavalry.

Casualties and losses

3,000 killed
2,000 wounded

30,000 killed
unknown wounded
140 cannons

The Battle of Petrovaradin or Peterwardein was a decisive victory for Austrian forces in the war between Habsburg Monarchy of Austria and the Ottoman Empire (1716–1718), at Petrovaradin (then part of Military Frontier, Habsburg Monarchy; today part of Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia).

In 1716, Grand Vizier Damat Ali gathered a 150,000 strong Ottoman army at Belgrade, at the core of which were 40,000 Janissaries, 20,000 Sipahi, and 10,000 Tatars, together with some renegade Kuruc cavalry. They crossed the Sava at Zemun at the end of July, and moved on the right bank of the Danube towards Sremski Karlovci (in the Habsburg territory). The Tatars, with Moldavians and Kurucs drove into Transylvania, but the Transylvanian forces were no match for the Tatars.

The commander of the Austrian forces, Prince Eugene of Savoy, decided to engage the Ottomans at Petrovaradin. He had arranged for the construction of a fortified encampment within the Petrovaradin fortress there, and set the 83,300 strong Imperial army on the march from their quarters in Futog. There was an 8,000 man garrison in the fortress consisting primarily of Serbs. In the Austrian army served Croatian and Hungarian infantry and cavalry regiments (approx. 42,000 men), Serbian border soldiers in the Vojvodina and the auxiliaries from Württemberg.

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