Schematic plan · Austro-Turkish War

Battle of Saint Gotthard (1664)

1 August 1664
Hungary
Victory for Holy Roman Empire

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A schematic plan, generated from the statistics of the CAA Database of Battles: the armies' size and width, the hours of fighting, the plan of attack and the outcome are as recorded; the ground and the positions are not.

Ottoman Empire (Turk Army, 60,000 men under Ahmed Koprulu) attacked Holy Roman Empire (Imp Allied Army, 30,000 men under Montecuccoli) in Hungary. The CAA Database of Battles records 8 hours of fighting on a front of 3.8 km, a frontal attack against hasty defense, and that Holy Roman Empire held. Losses: Ottoman Empire 8,000 (13%), Holy Roman Empire 2,000 (7%).

This plan is generated from those figures. It shows the shape of the battle the database describes: the size and width of the armies, the plan of attack and the outcome. It does not show where the units actually stood.

The armies

Ottoman Empire

Ahmed Koprulu

Unit	Arm	Men
Ottoman Empire left wing	Infantry	9,528
Ottoman Empire centre	Infantry	12,704
Ottoman Empire right wing	Infantry	9,528
Ottoman Empire reserve	Infantry	7,940
Ottoman Empire cavalry of the left	Cavalry	10,000
Ottoman Empire cavalry of the right	Cavalry	10,000
Ottoman Empire artillery (20 guns)	Artillery	300
Ahmed Koprulu	Commander	—
In this plan		60,000

Holy Roman Empire

Montecuccoli

Unit	Arm	Men
Holy Roman Empire left wing	Infantry	4,710
Holy Roman Empire centre	Infantry	6,280
Holy Roman Empire right wing	Infantry	4,710
Holy Roman Empire reserve	Infantry	3,925
Holy Roman Empire cavalry of the left	Cavalry	5,000
Holy Roman Empire cavalry of the right	Cavalry	5,000
Holy Roman Empire artillery (25 guns)	Artillery	375
Montecuccoli	Commander	—
In this plan		30,000

What the sources report

	Ottoman Empire	Holy Roman Empire
Strength, this plan	60,000	30,000
Losses, this plan	8,000	2,000

In the CAA Database of Battles

CDB90 no. 31, “The Raab”, compiled for the US Army to study what decides battles. These are the figures a what-if engine can be calibrated against.

Fighting: 8 hours
Winner: the defender
Terrain: Rolling, Mixed
Weather: Dry, Sunny, Temperate, Summer, Temperate
Defender’s posture: Hasty defense
Front width: 3.8 km (attacker), 4.1 km (defender)

Force	Strength	Losses	Horse	Guns	Plan and outcome
Ottoman Empireattacker	60,000	8,000	20,000	20	Frontal attack; Repulse; Withdrew
Holy Roman Empiredefender	30,000	2,000	10,000	25	Defensive/offensive plan; Double envelopment

Attacker’s advantages none recorded

CDB90 (US Army Concepts Analysis Agency, 1990), tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold; data under ODC-BY 1.0.

Notes

On this reconstruction

Generated automatically from the statistics in CDB90. Frontages, depths, distances, the order of events and the terrain are schematic: they follow the recorded strengths, front widths, hours of fighting, tactical plan and outcome, not maps or accounts of the battle. The sources give no hours; the timing is conjectural.

Sources

US Army Concepts Analysis Agency; tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold, CAA Database of Battles (CDB90), no. 31 · ODC-BY-1.0Strengths, losses, front widths, hours of fighting, tactics and outcome.
Wikipedia contributors, Battle of Saint Gotthard (1664) · CC-BY-SA-4.0

Facts gathered from Wikidata (CC0), Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Wikimedia Commons (licence per file); the plan and its text are timeastra’s own.