Battle of Cegléd

Battle of Cegléd
	Part of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848
	; Retreating Austrian artillery from the Battle of Cegléd
Date	25 January 1849
Location	Cegléd, Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County, Kingdom of Hungary
Result	Hungarian victory
Belligerents
Hungarian Revolutionary Army	Austrian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Mór Perczel	Ferenc Ottinger
Strength
17,839 men (in reality only the cavalry and artillery of the Hungarians participated in the battle: ~2,500 men); 66 cannons	2,762 men ; 18 cannons
Casualties and losses
1 dead; 2 wounded	6 dead; 15 wounded; 22 missing or captured; 78 horses (these are the aggregated numbers of the Austrian losses of the First Battle of Szolnok and the Battle of Cegléd)

The Battle of Cegléd was a battle in the Hungarian war of Independence of 1848-1849, fought on 25 January 1849 between the revolutionary Hungarian army led by General Mór Perczel against the cavalry brigade of the Austrian Empire led by General Ferenc Ottinger. After the First Battle of Szolnok Ottinger retreated to Cegléd and received some infantry reinforcements to his cavalry brigade. Perczel decided to continue his attack, and when Ottinger felt that he was about to be encircled by the Hungarian troops, decided to retreat from the battlefield. Thus this battle was confined merely to an artillery duel, ending in an Austrian retreat. Perczel's victories at Szolnok and Cegléd, were the first important Hungarian successes in the Western theater against the main Austrian army after the start of their offensive against Hungary in mid-December 1848, panicking the Imperial-Royal army's commandment in Pest, forcing it to call back the bulk of their troops which were pursuing Artúr Görgei's Upper Danube Corps in Northern Hungary.

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