Only half of the 11th Honvéd Cavalry Division had arrived when the Austro-Hungarian Third Army ordered it forward into Russian territory. The Hussars had an easy initial advance until they ran into a Russian cavalry division, itself retreating after an encounter with the Combined Army’s 2nd Cavalry Division. Ezredes (Colonel) Ladislaus Jony von Jamnik immediately ordered his hussars to attack.

Ordered to perform a reconnaissance in force, the Honvéd cavalry – like all of the Austrian mounted formations in August 1914 – paid more attention to the force part of their orders rather than the reconnaissance. A sharp, close fight developed with neither side showing much clarity as to just why they had engaged the enemy, before a mutual withdrawal ended the saber-swinging. The hussars had not gotten past the Russian cavalry to seek out and locate the oncoming infantry formations behind them, but neither had they tried very hard.