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Battle of Petrovaradin

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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.
Rolling, Mixed groundCentreCentreHorseHorseHorseHorseLeft wingRight wingLeft wingRight wingReserveReserveGuns02 km4 kmN

Habsburg Empire (Aus Army, 63,000 men under Eugene) attacked Ottoman Empire (Turk Army, 60,000 men under Ali Pasha) in Kingdom of Hungary. The CAA Database of Battles records 5 hours of fighting on a front of 7.9 km, a frontal attack against hasty defense, and that Habsburg Empire won. Losses: Habsburg Empire 4,500 (7%), Ottoman Empire 6,000 (10%).

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

Habsburg Empire

Eugene

UnitArmMen
Habsburg Empire left wingInfantry9,840
Habsburg Empire centreInfantry13,120
Habsburg Empire right wingInfantry9,840
Habsburg Empire reserveInfantry8,200
Habsburg Empire cavalry of the leftCavalry11,000
Habsburg Empire cavalry of the rightCavalry11,000
EugeneCommander—
In this plan63,000

Ottoman Empire

Ali Pasha

UnitArmMen
Ottoman Empire left wingInfantry9,028
Ottoman Empire centreInfantry12,037
Ottoman Empire right wingInfantry9,028
Ottoman Empire reserveInfantry7,523
Ottoman Empire cavalry of the leftCavalry10,000
Ottoman Empire cavalry of the rightCavalry10,000
Ottoman Empire artillery (159 guns)Artillery2,385
Ali PashaCommander—
In this plan60,001

What the sources report

Habsburg EmpireOttoman Empire
Strength, this plan63,00060,000
Losses, this plan4,5006,000

In the CAA Database of Battles

CDB90 no. 54, “Peterwardein”, compiled for the US Army to study what decides battles. These are the figures a what-if engine can be calibrated against.

Fighting
5 hours
Winner
the attacker
Terrain
Rolling, Mixed
Weather
Dry, Sunny, Temperate, Summer, Temperate
Defender’s posture
Hasty defense
ForceStrengthLossesHorseGunsPlan and outcome
Habsburg Empireattacker63,0004,50022,000—Frontal attack; Penetration; Breakthrough; Pursued
Ottoman Empiredefender60,0006,00020,000159Defensive/offensive plan; Frontal attack; Penetration; Repulse; Withdrew

Attacker’s advantages leadership +1 · training +1 · combat effectiveness +1

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

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.