1716Vezirac
The Battle of Petrovaradin, 1716, an Italian print
Cavalry fight across a plain with Belgrade visible on its hill in the distance and a cannon in the foreground. The Italian caption describes a battle fought on 5 August 1716 at the Sava river between the Imperial and Ottoman armies under Prince Eugene of Savoy, ending in an Imperial victory.
About this place
The hill above Petrovaradin on the Fruska Gora side of the Danube, and the ground on which the Battle of Petrovaradin was fought on 5 August 1716. The Ottoman army under the Grand Vizier Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha camped here to besiege the fortress, and the hill carries his title: Vezirac is the Vizier's place. Prince Eugene of Savoy crossed from the fortress and broke the Ottoman line in a single morning. The Grand Vizier was mortally wounded in the fighting and died soon after, and the defeat ended the Ottoman advance on the middle Danube. The Peace Monument stands on the hill today.
On the card
Ütközet Pétervárad mellett (1716)
- Date
- 1716
- Coordinates
- 45.21071, 19.89849
- Source
- Hungarian National Museum
- Credit
- Hungarian National Museum / unknown Italian master
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- Size
- 640 × 484 px
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