Battle of Tura

Battle of Tura
Part of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848
Date 20 July 1849 Location around and in Tura Kingdom of Hungary Result Russian victory. See aftermath
Belligerents
Hungarian Revolutionary Army Polish Legion	Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Mór Perczel  Arisztid Dessewffy  Lázár Mészáros  Henryk Dembiński	Aleksandr Petrovich Tolstoy Ivan Mikhaylovich Labintsov  Ivan Paskevich
Strength
Total: 2,492 men 14 cannons	Total: 7,087 men - Tolstoy's cavalry column: 2,316 men, 16 cannons - 1. brigade of Labintsov's 5. infantry division: 4,771 men 18 cannons
Casualties and losses
Total: 80–100 dead 2 cannons	Total: 59 men[1]

The Battle of Tura was fought around the village of Tura by the cavalry of the IX. and the X. corps of the Hungarian revolutionary army led by General Mór Perczel and the Russian cavalry detachment led by Lieutenant General Aleksandr Petrovich Tolstoy and the 1. brigade of the 5. infantry division led by Lieutenant General Ivan Mikhaylovich Labintsov. The Hungarians advanced towards North in order to relieve the Russian pressure over General Artúr Görgei's Army of the Upper Danube, which after the second battle of Vác from 15 to 17 July was heading towards the Hungarian armies meeting point around Szeged. The battle started between the Hungarian cavalry units under Perczel and the Russian cavalry under Tolstoy. The Hungarians pushed back the Russian cavalry, but when the Russian infantry led by Labintsov arrived, Perczel retreated. The Russians did not pursued his troops. Although the Russians remained the masters of the battlefield, Perczel's objective to ease the Russian pressure over Görgei's troops succeeded, helping in this way the latter to succeed in his march to Southern Hungary.