Battle of Biskupice

In March 1704, the Austrian commander Hannibal Heister merged with other Imperial troops (Germans, Danes, Serbs) near Komárom (present-day Komárno, Slovakia). The Austrian plan was to clean the Great Rye Island from Kuruc troops. However, this region had joined Rákóczi's rebellion in 1703, and Kuruc forces now threatened Komárom, Pressburg and the Moravian border.

After General Johann von Ritschan had to retreat from Pressburg (Bratislava) to Moravia, on orders from Vienna in order to better secure the Moravian border and Moravia, Heister sent German Colonel Viard and Danish Major Adam Frederik Trampe to Pressburg with an army of 1,400 men, mostly Danes, to replace him.

The Kurucs under Lőrinc Pekry and László Ocskay [hu] (by instruction of general Miklós Bercsényi) attacked by surprise the marching Danes near Püspöki (today Podunajské Biskupice, Slovakia) inflicting quite heavy losses on them. However, they could not prevent the surviving Danes from reaching Pressburg.

The Kuruc army also stormed the ramparts near Gutta (present-day Kolárovo, Slovakia).
On 28 April, in the battle of Nárazd, Heister pushed back the Kuruc army.

• Bánlaky József: A magyar nemzet hadtörténelme – Heister május havi hadműveletei gróf Bercsényi Miklós és gróf Eszterházy Antal ellen.
• A Csallóköz rövid története
• Et dansk korps i østrigsk tjeneste 1704-09 (milhist.dk)