Battle of Kápolna

Battle of Kápolna
	Part of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848
	; Painting of The Battle of Kápolna by Mór Than
Date	26 and 27 February 1849
Location	Kápolna, Heves County, Hungary
Result	Austrian victory
Belligerents
Hungarian Revolutionary Army; Polish Legion; Italian volunteers	Austrian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Henryk Dembiński; Artúr Görgei; György Klapka	Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz; Franz Schlik
Strength
Total participants:; 27,135 men; 88 cannons; Did not participate:; 13,079 men; 55 cannons	Total participants:; 21,640 men; 147 cannons; Did not participate:; 8360 men; 18 cannons
Casualties and losses
1,540 - 1,740	351

The Battle of Kápolna was one of the decisive battles of the Hungarian war of Independence of 1848–1849, fought on 26 and 27 February 1849 between the Hungarian revolutionary army led by Lieutenant General Henryk Dembiński and the Austrian main army operating in Hungary Field Marshal Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz. After the Austrian offensive from the winter of 1848-1849, which resulted in losing the Western part of the country, the Hungarian army tried its first major counter-attack, but due to the disastrous leadership of the Polish Henryk Dembiński, the battle ended with an Austrian victory, and this did not influence only the military situation, but also the politics of central Europe: Franz Joseph I announced the March Constitution of Austria on 4 March 1849.

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