The Battle of Kassa was fought on October 18, 1685, in the city of Kassa in the

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(now Košice in Slovakia), between the armies of the

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and of the

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. The Austrian Commander, Field Marshal

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, defeated the

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near the city and with this victory regained Habsburg control of which had been lost in 1682 to the

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leader

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. Košice at the time was defended by a modern pentagonal fortress (

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) built by the Habsburgs south of the city in the 1670s.

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