1716Vezirac
The Battle of Petrovaradin, 1716, an English Print
Cavalry clash in the foreground of a wide panoramic battlefield view, with rows of infantry and cannon smoke stretching back across the plain toward a distant town. The English title beneath the scene reads The Battle of Piterwaradin, August the V, 1716.
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
Péterváradi csata (1716. augusztus 5.)
- Date
- 1716
- Coordinates
- 45.21071, 19.89849
- Source
- Hungarian National Museum
- Credit
- Hungarian National Museum
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- Size
- 468 × 640 px
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