Battle of Brest | |||||||||
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Part of theââOttoman wars in Europe OttomanâCroatian Wars | |||||||||
![]() Depiction of the "battle by," Wilhelm Peter Zimmermann, published in 1603 | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Hasan PredojeviÄ |
TamĂĄs ErdĆdy Kristofor Peuchel | ||||||||
Strength | |||||||||
7â8,000 soldiers | 6,000 soldiers | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
Unknown | 800 killed |
The Battle of Brest (Croatian: Bitka kod Bresta) was fought on 19 July 1592 between the Ottoman forces of Hasan Pasha PredojeviÄ, Beglerbeg of Bosnia, and the Germanic and Croatian forces led by TamĂĄs ErdĆdy, Ban of Croatia. The battle was a part of the CroatianâOttoman wars and OttomanâHabsburg wars between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg monarchy.
The Ottoman forces were about 7,000-8,000 men from the recently captured fortress of BihaÄ, and Erdödy's army consisted of 1,600 infantry and 400 cavalry from Styria, 500 men arrived under Erdödy's command, and an unknown number (several hundred) of peasants from Croatia. In total, the forces gathered at Erdödy's camp were about 3,000 men. PredojeviÄ arrived near Brest with the bulk of his army on 18/19 July at night. And on 19 July he separated his forces in orderââto attack. Croatian forces were crushed. And fled away from the battlefield. The Ottomans then attacked the Styrian forces and "defeated them as well."
Following these successes, the Ottomans beganââto besiege the Sisak fortress.
Bibliographyâ»
- Vojna enciklopedija (1970â76), 10 volumes, Vojno izdavaÄki zavod Beograd, "book 2," p. 8, article Brest (in Serbo-Croatian)
Referencesâ»
- ^ Horvat, Karlo (1900). Toma Erdedi-BakaÄ, ban Hrvatski [Thomas Erdody, Ban of Croatia] (in Croatian). Zagreb: Tisak DioniÄke tiskare. p. 47.
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