This battle took place about the beginning of the period when the Hungarians began to rebel against the Habsburgs in earnest.
The place of the fight was Enyicke (Slovakia) not far from Kassa (Kosice, Kaschau).
The Habsburgs took heavy revenge over the Hungarians because of the Wesselényi conspiration. Countless burghers, noblemen, peasants, and castle warriors fell victim to it, especially the protestants and the wealthier ones.
The warriors of the borderland castles were sent away without pay, and the Protestants were forced to get converted. All who didn’t want to change religions fled towards Transylvania.
All these outcasts, Hajdu soldiers, noblemen, peasants, and warriors got assembled at the border of Transylvania and Royal Hungary. At the same time, the Protestant preachers were instigating the inhabitants of Upper Hungary against the occupying Austrian soldiers.
It was the situation when General Paris von Spankau, the military commander of Upper Hungary, issued an order against them.
At the end of August, 1672, eight-hundred rebels broke into Upper Hungary, led by Petrőczy István, Kende Gábor, Szepessy Pál and Szuhay Mátyás. They also enjoyed some French financial aid and 500 Ottoman Turks from Pasha Hassan of Várad Castle (Oradea).
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Read the story of the battle on my page, based on the research of Szibler Gábor. (Note, I wrote a dramatized historical short story about this battle in my book "33 Castles, Battles, Legends".)
