Surrender at Ozora
The Surrender at Ozora, was an important event of the early stage of the Hungarian War of independence of 1848-1849. The 9000 strong Croatian corps which invaded the Transdanubia region of Hungary, trying to join the Croatian main army led by Lieutenant General Josip Jelačić, which was sent by the Habsburg Empire to chase away the revolutionary government of Hungary, and reimpose the total imperial suvereignity over the country, was forced to surrender by Hungarian regular and insurrectionist forces led by Major Artúr Görgei and Colonel Mór Perczel. Thanks to this the Croatian invasion and the Habsburg plans against Hungary suffered a total defeat. Background On 11 September 1848, the Croatian troops sent by the Habsburg Empire to depose the Hungarian revolutionary government led by Lajos Batthyány, crossed the Dráva river. Ten days after the Croatian main army led by Lieutenant General Josip Jelačić crossed the at Légrád, another large force led by Karl Roth crossed the river to march eastwards across the Danube towards Pest-Buda. Jelačić initially planned the campaign to join his army with Roth's corps somewhere in the region of Székesfehérvár before reaching the capital, but the favorable start of the campaign, such as: the retreat of