Although this military performance went down in history as the Battle of Trnava, the only memorial to this event in the vicinity of Trnava is the mound with the cross in Hrnčiarovce nad Parnou, where the monks of Trnava buried 180 killed chickens, bastards and French grenadiers after the fight.
The clash itself was preceded by the siege of the Imperial Fortress of Leopoldov by the rebels of Francis II. Rákoci and the intention of the Imperial Field Marshal Sigrid Heister to help the defenders of this fortress. The two, imperial and insurgent troops, finally met during the Christmas holidays on Thursday, December 26, 1704 near Trnava. Rákoci's divisions had 12,000 riders, 7,800 infantry and 6 parts. The Imperial Army also numbered around 20
000 men, but compared to the insurgents had up to 24 works. In the fight, which broke out under heavy snow and heavy fog, the individual divisions of Kurucs initially won. After the shots dispelled the fog, Marshal Heister was shocked by the enemy's optical superiority. However, due to poor visibility, he did not notice that the two outer wings of the Rákoci army, composed of riders, stood only in one width. The Imperial Army stood in an approximately 2 km long front line lined up along the entire length of the left bank of Parná from Kamenný mlýn to the village of Hrnčiarovce.