Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Sárkány (Hungarian Rising).

Fought December 30, 1848, between the Austrians, under Windischgrätz, and the Hungarians, under General Perczel. Perczel had been entrusted by Görgey with the defence of the Sárkány defile, but on being attacked by the Austrians, his division made little resistance, and fled in disorder, thus forcing Görgey to retire from the line he had chosen to defend.