Battle of Tápióbicske

Part of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848

Date	4 April 1849
Location	around and in Tápióbicske, Kingdom of Hungary
Result	Hungarian victory

Belligerents

Hungarian Revolutionary Army

Polish Legion

Austrian Empire

Kingdom of Croatia

Commanders and leaders

Strength

22,419 men
- I. corps: 10,827
- III. corps: 11,592
63 cannons

16,000 men
12 cannons

Casualties and losses

800–1500 men

301 men
- 53 dead
-186 wounded and prisoner
-62 missing

Austrian Empire

The Battle of Tápióbicske was a battle in the Spring Campaign of the Hungarian War of Independence from 1848–1849, fought on 4 April 1849 between the Austrian Empire and the Hungarian Revolutionary Army. The Habsburg forces consisted by the I. corps of the imperial army led by Lieutenant Field Marshal Josip Jelačić, while the Hungarians by the I. and III. corps of the Hungarian army led by General György Klapka, respectively by General János Damjanich. The Hungarians were victorious, and thanks to this, the main Hungarian armies advanced towards the Hungarian capitals (Buda and Pest), forcing the Austrian high commander, Marshal Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz to a decisive battle at Isaszeg, which would decide the fate of Central and Western Hungary until the intervention of the Russian forces on the Habsburg side in June 1849.

After the Spring Campaign of the Hungarian revolutionary army started well with a victory in the Battle of Hatvan, the second army group, consisting of I., II., III., corps started an advance towards south west in the direction of Pest and Buda. They met at Jászberény on 3 April. General Artúr Görgei, the interim high commander of the Hungarian main armies, gave the disposition to György Klapka to depart with the I. corps under his lead in the next morning at 4 o'clock towards Tápióbicske via Nagykáta, to János Damjanich with the III. corps to move at 5 o'clock towards Nagykáta, and to Lieutenant-Colonel István Szekulits,with the II. corps to go at 6 o'clock towards Farmos, but the headquarters will be at Nagykáta. The Hungarian plan of the Spring Campaign, elaborated by Antal Vetter, was that the 7th corps, under the lead of András Gáspár, had to attract the attention of Windisch-Grätz on his troops by making a deception attack from the direction of Hatvan, while the other three corps (I., II., III.) would encircle the Austrian forces from South West, and cut them from the capital cities (Pest and Buda). So it was very important that these three army corps to advance towards Windisch-Grätz, undetected, or without accidentally betray their numbers and purposes to the enemy.

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