1788 1789 1790 1791 The Battle of Orsova was a military engagement between the Habsbug and the Ottoman armies during the Austro-Turkish War of 1788–1791.

Since the Austrians also threatened them from the west, the Ottomans sent a greater part of their forces against them under the leadership of the Grand Vizier, Koca Yusuf Pasha.

[1] The Ottoman vanguard appeared on the right bank of the Danube River opposite old Orsova on the morning of August 7.

Commanded by Paul Dimich von Papilla, the Austrian force consisted of the Wallachian cavalry regiment and the De Vins Hungarian infantry battalion led by Lieutenant-Colonel Pál Szentiványi.

The Ottomans began crossing the Danube using 13 ships and Szentiványi directed his guns against them but failed to prevent them.

The Austrians divided troops into smaller groups and tried to escape from the Ottomans by crossing the mountain range to the west.