The Battle of Segeschwar is an episode of the Hungarian War , during which the Russian-Austrian troops of Liders defeated the Hungarian-Polish insurgent army Bema on July 31, 1849 near the town of Sighisoara ( Shesburg , Shegeshwar ).
The Battle of Segeshwar |
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Main conflict: Suppression of the Hungarian uprising |
The Battle of Segeshwar |
date | July 31, 1849 |
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A place | Segeswar , Kingdom of Hungary |
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Total | Austro-Russian victory |
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Alexander Liders Edward Clam-Gallas | Jozef Bem |
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250 dead and wounded | 1,200 killed 500 prisoners 8 guns |
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In this battle, the Hungarian poet Sandor Petefi and the Russian general Grigory Skaryatin died. The battlefield is immortalized by the sculpture of a sleeping lion [1]