Topic summary
Battle of Schwechat
Artúr Görgei
Richard Guyon
Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz
Prince Franz de Paula of Liechtenstein
82 cannons
75 cannons
59/62 wounded
8/12 missing
The Battle of Schwechat was a battle in the Hungarian war of Independence of 1848-1849, fought on 30 October 1848 between the revolutionary Hungarian Army led by Lieutenant General János Móga against the army of the Austrian Empire led by Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz and Lieutenant General Josip Jelačić, at Schwechat, near Vienna. This was the last battle of 1848 in the Transdanubian campaign. The Hungarian Army wanted to relieve the revolutionaries from Vienna, besieged by the Austrian imperial army, but they were defeated. Vienna fell on the next day.