Battle of Friedau

Battle of Friedau
Part of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848
Date 8 November 1848 Location Friedau, Duchy of Styria, Habsburg monarchy, today Ormož, Slovenia Result Hungarian victory
Belligerents
Hungarian Revolutionary Army	Austrian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Mór Perczel	Johann Wilhelm Burits de Pournay
Strength
4,935 men 525 horses 12 cannons[1]	1,681 + ? men 324 + ? horses 6 cannons[1]
Casualties and losses
1 dead 12 wounded 2 missing or captured 2 horses	1 dead 8 wounded 27 (47) missing or captured 6 horses[1]

The Battle of Friedau was a battle in the Hungarian War of Independence of 1848-1849, fought on 8 November 1848 between the Hungarian Revolutionary Army under the command of General Mór Perczel and the Austrian K.u.K. troops under General Johann Wilhelm Burits de Pournay. Perczel, after liberating on 17 October the Muraköz, at the beginning of November, got information that the Austrian troops from Styria and the Croatian troops plan to perform a concentrated attack against him, with much superior forces, so he decided to do a preemptive attack against the Austrian troops from Styria. He defeated the troops of General Burits at Friedau, then retreated back to Hungary, thus securing Muraköz for another month.