Battle of Biskupice

The Battle of Biskupice took place between the Kuruc and the Danish auxiliaries of the Habsburg army on 21 April 1704.

The battle

In March 1704, the Austrian commander Hannibal Heister merged with other Imperial troops near Komárom. The Austrian plan was to clean the Great Rye Island from Kuruc troops. However, this region had joined Rákóczi's rebellion in 1703, and Kuruc forces now threatened Komárom, Pressburg and the Moravian border.
After General Johann von Ritschan had to retreat from Pressburg to Moravia, on orders from Vienna in order to better secure the Moravian border and Moravia, Heister sent German Colonel Viard and Danish Major Adam Frederik Trampe to Pressburg with an army of 1,400 men, mostly Danes, to replace him.
The Kurucs under Lőrinc Pekry and attacked by surprise the marching Danes near Püspöki inflicting quite heavy losses on them. However, they could not prevent the surviving Danes from reaching Pressburg.
The Kuruc army also stormed the ramparts near Gutta.
On 28 April, in the battle of Nárazd, Heister pushed back the Kuruc army.