A hand coloured engraving of the battle, set inside a printed border with a trophy of banners, spears and drums above and a scrolled cartouche below. The upper half looks down over a wide plain from a height: a town of red roofs with two church spires at the lower left, long parallel lines of tents and earthworks ranged across the middle distance, and wooded hills closing the horizon. In the foreground the cavalry have met. Horsemen in blue and green coats and tricorne hats ride into a press of figures in turbans and loose red and yellow dress, a dark blue standard is held up at the centre, and ranks of infantry with shouldered muskets stand behind them at the right. Dead and wounded men lie across the grass among fallen horses, a dropped sabre and a shed saddle, and a stripped figure in a green wrap stands at the left edge. The engraved caption in the cartouche gives the day as the fifth of August 1716.
About this place
A Habsburg star fortress on the right bank of the Danube, built between 1692 and 1780 on a site fortified since antiquity: the Romans held Cusum here, a medieval fortress followed, and Cistercian monks kept a monastery on the hill in the 13th century. Beneath its walls Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated a far larger Ottoman army on 5 August 1716. Nicknamed the Gibraltar on the Danube, the fortress conceals some 16 kilometres of underground counter-mine galleries dug in 1764-1776. On its clock tower the hands are reversed, the long hand showing the hours so that fishermen on the Danube could read the time from a distance. The fortress still stands over the river and houses the City Museum of Novi Sad.
On the card
THE / BATTLE OF PETE[?]ARADIN / AUGUST THE V. / 1716.
- Date
- 1716
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Europeana /1450/https___ekultura_hr_purl_url_SCYGZ2ZGERTZ2QATSH37T3OWCKRH2TLZ
- Credit
- National and University Library in Zagreb via Europeana
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 353 × 500 px
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