Albert Gyulay Count Albert Gyulay de Marosnémethi et Nádaska or Albert Gyulai von Máros - Németh und Nádaska , born 12 September 1766 – died 27 April 1835 , a Hungarian , joined the army of Habsburg Austria and fought against Ottoman Turkey . He served against the First French Republic in the Flanders Campaign and on the Rhine . Severely wounded in 1799 , he survived a trepanning operation and briefly retired from military service . He returned to active service and commanded an army corps during the War of the Fifth Coalition , part of the Napoleonic Wars . He led his troops in several important battles during the Austrian invasion of Italy in 1809 , including one where he was in independent command . Though appointed to command troops in 1813 and 1815 , he missed combat in both campaigns . He was Proprietor ( Inhaber ) of an Austrian infantry regiment from 1810 until his death . The more famous Ignác Gyulay , Ban of Croatia was his older brother . Early career . Born into a noble Hungarian family on 12 September 1766 , Albert Gyulay became a junior Leutnant in the " Kaiser " Hussar Regiment # 1 on 1 May 1784 . Previous to his appointment , he received military training as a cadet at the Theresienstatt Academy . His father , Sámuel Gyulay was a general officer and Inhaber of Infantry Regiment # 32 from 1773 until his death in 1802 . His mother was Anna Bornemisza de Kászon . In October 1787 he briefly transferred into the " Alvinczi " Infantry Regiment # 19 before entering the " Szekler " Hussar Regiment # 44 in December . The Austro - Turkish War broke out that year and he fought in Transylvania in 1788 . On 26 August 1788 he won distinction in a skirmish at the Törzburger Pass at the head of a hussar squadron . Gyulay transferred into his father ' s regiment as a Hauptmann ( captain ) of grenadiers in February 1789 and fought at the Siege of Belgrade in autumn that year . He led his company in the " Kempf " grenadier battalion in Franz von Werneck ' s column during the successful assault on the city , which capitulated on 8 October . He was awarded the Knight ' s Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa on 21 December 1789 . French Revolution . In 1793 during the War of the First Coalition , Gyulay fought in several actions and was promoted to Major in the " O ' Donell " Freikorps on 1 May . The following year found him serving in Heinrich , Count of Bellegarde ' s brigade in a number of minor actions . He defeated the French troops opposed to him in the Battle of Tournay on 22 May 1794 . That year he married Justine Wynants ( d . 1824 ) . On 19 April 1797 , he fought in a successful action in the aftermath of Werneck ' s defeat at the Battle of Neuwied on the Rhine . The same month he received promotion to Oberstleutnant in his father ' s regiment . On 26 April 1798 , Gyulay became Oberst of the newly formed Infantry Regiment # 48 . In the War of the Second Coalition , his troops drove off French attacks in the Battle of Verona on 26 April 1799 . At the Battle of Magnano on 6 April , his regiment formed part of Ferdinand Minckwitz ' s brigade in Konrad Valentin von Kaim ' s division . While leading an attacking column against Antoine Delmas ' French division , he was struck in the head by a musket ball . The bullet was removed by trepanning at Verona , but the dangerous injury forced Gyulay to retire from the army the next year . He was appointed General - Major on 24 July 1800 . 1809 campaign . Gyulay returned to active service in 1803 and was elevated in rank to Feldmarschall - Leutnant on 14 August 1808 . The outbreak of the War of the Fifth Coalition found him in command of a division in the VIII Armeekorps of Johann Gabriel Chasteler de Courcelles . When the Tyrolean Rebellion erupted in April 1809 , Archduke John of Austria sent Chasteler into the Tyrol with about 10 , 000 troops and appointed Gyulay commander of the VIII Armeekorps . By coincidence , his older brother Ignác Gyulay led the IX Armeekorps , which was the other major maneuver unit in John ' s army . On 10 April , Albert Gyulay ' s VIII Armeekorps advanced from Tarvisio ( Tarvis ) and two days later it occupied Udine . Near the latter city , he was joined by his brother ' s corps which had marched from Ljubljana ( Laibach ) . French reconnaissance was poor and the opposing army commander , Eugène de Beauharnais remained unaware that the VIII and IX Armeekorps had joined forces . Meanwhile , Archduke John formed a third maneuver unit , an army Advance Guard and placed it under the command of Johann Maria Philipp Frimont . The Advance Guard was created from Frimont ' s 2nd Division of the VIII Armeekorps . John ordered a night march on the evening of the 14th , Frimont ' s Advance Guard leading , followed by the VIII Armeekorps , while the IX brought up the rear . Frimont caught Eugène ' s own advance guard at Pordenone on the morning of 15 April and defeated it . The French lost 500 killed and wounded , plus 2 , 000 prisoners , while Austrian losses were only 253 . Expecting the imminent arrival of two divisions , an overconfident Eugène engaged John ' s army on 16 April in the Battle of Sacile . Eugène planned a two - division attack on the village of Porcia where Frimont and Albert Gyulay posted their troops . Delayed by the rainy weather , Ignác Gyulay ' s corps camped behind the VIII Armeekorps . John anticipated Eugène ' s attack and planned to have Albert Gyulay and Frimont absorb the blow , while swinging Ignác Gyulay against his enemies ' left flank . The morning attack pressed hard against Frimont ' s troops in Porcia , so Albert Gyulai launched a counterattack which badly shook the Franco - Italians . Eugène committed a third division to the combat and it captured Porcia . Even so , Albert Gyulai and his troops resisted so fiercely that Eugène sent in a fourth division , leaving himself with only one remaining infantry division , plus cavalry . Delayed by rain , his reinforcements never made it to the battlefield . At this moment , Ignaz Gyulai ' s corps advanced upon the badly weakened Franco - Italian left flank . When Eugène recalled his fourth division to save his left flank , Albert Gyulay ' s troops recaptured Porcia . After an all - day fight , at 5 : 00 PM the French commander accepted defeat and ordered a withdrawal . Ignác Gyulay pursued the two divisions and cavalry of Eugène ' s left flank , while Albert Gyulay and Frimont pushed back the three divisions of the right . The VIII Armeekorps suffered the brunt of the Austrian losses , which were 2 , 617 killed and wounded , 532 captured and 697 missing , for a total of 3 , 846 . The Franco - Italians lost 3 , 000 killed and wounded , while 19 guns and 3 , 500 prisoners fell into Austrian hands . By the end of April , Eugène withdrew to Verona , gathered reinforcements , and reorganized his army . Archduke John took a position with his left flank behind the Adige River at Legnago and his right flank under Albert Gyulay behind the Alpone River at Soave , near the Arcole battlefield of 1796 . On 29 April , Paul Grenier thrust at Soave , but Albert Gyulay repulsed his attack . However , an Italian attack in the hills to the north seized Castelcerino village and threatened to turn the Austrian flank . The French suffered an estimated 1 , 000 casualties against 400 Austrians killed and wounded , plus 300 more captured . Albert Gyulay counterattacked the next day with 6 , 000 infantry and recovered Castelcerino from its 5 , 000 Italian defenders . Austrian losses numbered 300 killed and wounded and 572 missing , while the French admitted 409 casualties . On 1 May , John withdrew to the east , pausing behind the Brenta River before crossing the Piave River and camping near Conegliano . It became evident that Eugène was bent on a close pursuit , so John ordered his army to take up positions to defend the Piave . When Joseph Marie , Count Dessaix ' s light infantry division crossed the river early on 8 May to bring on the Battle of Piave River , John ' s troops were drawn up much closer to the river than Eugène suspected , with VIII Armeekorps on the right flank and Ignaz Gyulay ' s IX Armeekorps on the left . At this time , Albert Gyulay ' s corps consisted only of the brigades of Hieronymus Karl Graf von Colloredo - Mansfeld and Anton Gajoli . Dessaix was met with a massed cavalry charge led by Christian Wolfskeel von Reichenberg , which he repelled by forming his " voltiguers " in square . But the French soon came under fire from a 24 - gun battery . Eugène reinforced Dessaix ' s 5 , 000 troops and four cannons with two cavalry divisions and 20 additional guns . With the two grand batteries pounding away at each other , the French horsemen launched a charge that enveloped the ends of the Austrian gun line and crashed into the opposing cavalry . A French dragoon slew Wolfskeel , his second - in - command became a prisoner , and the Austrian cavalry was put to rout . The artillery crews managed to bring away ten guns , but the rest became prizes of their enemies . The victorious French troopers chased the fugitives until they encountered Colloredo and Gajoli , deployed behind the Piavisella canal . Unable to make headway , the French cavalry withdrew . There was a lull in the battle as Eugène got as much infantry as possible to ford the river before the rising waters drowned the fords . John was unable to take advantage of the situation because his cavalry was beaten and demoralized . Late in the afternoon , the French commander launched his final attack , sending Grenier ' s corps against the Austrian left and Jacques MacDonald ' s corps against Albert Gyulay ' s Piavisella line . When Grenier dislodged his left flank brigade , John ordered a general retreat back to Conegliano . The French lost about 2 , 000 casualties , while the Austrian losses numbered 398 killed , 697 wounded , 1 , 681 captured , and 1 , 120 missing , for a total of 3 , 896 men and 15 guns lost . As John retreated , he split up his army , sending the rump of the IX Armeekorps east to defend Carniola ( modern Slovenia ) under Ignaz Gyulay . As Ban of Croatia , Ignaz had the authority to muster the Croatian " insurrectio " or militia . With the remainder of his army , John marched northeast toward the Austrian base at Villach and recalled Chasteler from the Tyrol to help defend the frontier . After smashing Frimont ' s rear guard at San Daniele del Friuli on 11 May , Eugène pursued John northeast . Despite his setback , Frimont clashed with his enemies at Venzone and successfully burned the bridges behind him . Archduke John reorganized his Italian army into three major bodies in mid - May . Ignác Gyulay assembled 14 , 880 soldiers and 26 guns into four brigades at Kranj ( Krain ) . Albert Gyulay defended Tarvisio with 8 , 340 troops and 20 guns in the brigades of Gajoli , Franz Marziani , and Peter Lutz . Frimont ' s Mobile Corps lay at Villach with 13 , 060 men and 22 guns in four brigades . In addition , John controlled Franz Jellacic ' s 10 , 200 - strong Northern Division and Andreas Stoichevich ' s 8 , 100 - man force in Dalmatia . In trying to break through the Alpine barrier , Eugène sent MacDonald east with 14 , 000 troops in three divisions , Jean - Baptiste Dominique Rusca ' s division north into the upper Piave valley , and Jean Mathieu Seras ' division north up the Soča ( Isonzo ) River . He took 25 , 000 troops in the corps of Grenier and Louis Baraguey d ' Hilliers in John ' s wake along the Fella River valley . With so many bridges down , the French commander was compelled to send his cavalry , most of his artillery , and his wagon train on Seras ' route . Holding Tarvisio with only 6 , 000 troops , Albert Gyulay relied on two outlying forts to stall the Franco - Italian advance . At Malborghetto Valbruna , a fort frowned down upon the Fella valley from a mountain spur . The Predil Pass blockhouse stood athwart Seras ' road from the south . Malborghetto was defended by Captain Friedrich Hensel with 650 Grenz infantry and 10 cannons , while Captain Johann Hermann , 250 Grenzers , and eight artillery pieces held Predil . Eugène and Seras arrived before the two forts on 15 May and initiated the Battle of Tarvis . Baraguey d ' Hilliers bypassed Malborghetto with two divisions and skirmished with Albert Gyulay ' s main force at Tarvisio on 16 May , while Grenier moved his two divisions into assault positions below the Malborghetto fort . Beginning at 9 : 30 AM on 17 May , 15 , 000 troops stormed the position in thirty minutes . Hensel and 350 Austrians were killed and between 50 and 300 were captured . Grenier reported 80 casualties but losses were probably much heavier . Meanwhile , Albert Gyulay abandoned Tarvisio and pulled back behind a stream on the east side of the town . The position was buttressed with a line of fortified redoubts . But the batteries were armed with only 10 of the 24 cannons that were planned . He deployed elements of the brigades of Gajoli , Marziani , and Lutz , plus the " Strassoldo " Infantry Regiment # 27 . After securing Malborghetto , Grenier rapidly moved his two divisions to join those of Baraguey d ' Hilliers at Tarvisio in a noon attack . An Italian division overran a key redoubt on Gyulay ' s left and began to flank the Austrian infantry out of position . As the line began to crack , Grenier ' s troops advanced , forcing Gyulay to order a retreat . Under pressure of superior numbers , the Austrian troops panicked and fled , losing as many as 3 , 000 killed , wounded , and captured . Gyulay reported losing 217 men killed , 271 wounded , 1 , 301 captured , and 170 missing , a total of 1 , 959 and six guns . To the south , Seras was unable to make an impression on the Predil blockhouse with his artillery . Needing to use the Predil Pass to bring up his cavalry , artillery , and trains , Eugène sent three battalions from Tarvisio to help . On the 18th , Seras attacked the Grenzers with 8 , 500 troops and 12 guns . After a heroic last stand , Hermann and his garrison were killed to a man . The Franco - Italians lost 450 killed and wounded . After the defeat , Gyulay was unable to follow John ' s retreat to Graz . Instead , he followed the Drava River east and joined the archduke at Szentgotthárd in Hungary on 2 June . Gyulay missed the Battle of Raab on 14 June . Later career . Emperor Francis I of Austria appointed him Inhaber of the " Albert Gyulay " Infantry Regiment # 21 on 7 February 1810 , a position he held for the remainder of his life . He was named to command the Reserve Armeekorps on the Danube in 1813 and a division in the Hundred Days campaign of 1815 . Neither appointment resulted in combat . He died on 27 April 1835 in Pest . Albert and Justine had four children , Sámuel Belá Crescencius ( 1803 – 1886 ) , Albert ( b . 1805 ) , Lajos ( d . 1845 ) , and Anna Jozefa ( d . 1837 ) .