Battle of Saint Gotthard | |||||||
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Part of the Austro-Turkish War (1663–1664) | |||||||
Battle of Saint Gotthard |
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Belligerents | |||||||
League of the Rhine: |
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Raimondo Montecuccoli Margrave von Baden Comte de Coligny Prince Waldeck |
Köprülüzade Fazıl Ahmed Paşa | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
~26-28,000, or 40,000 | ~ 50,000-60,000 (30,000 remained unengaged), or ~60,000 janissaries, and sipahi 60-90,000 irregular |
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Casualties and losses | |||||||
2-6,000 | 16-22,000 |
League of the Rhine:
France
Holy Roman Empire
The Battle of Saint Gotthard (Hungarian: Szentgotthárd; Turkish: Saint Gotthard Muharebesi; German: Schlacht bei Mogersdorf and Schlacht bei St. Gotthard; French: Bataille de Saint-Gothard) was fought on August 1, 1664 as part of the Austro-Turkish War (1663-1664), between an Habsburg army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, Jean de Coligny-Saligny, Wolfgang Julius, Count of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein, Prince Leopold of Baden, Georg Friedrich of Waldeck and an Ottoman army under the command of Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed Paşa.