In 1682, the Ottoman Empire made its third and final attempt to seize the Habsburg capital of Vienna, which would have thrown open the center of Europe to the Turkish host. The Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha led an army of 170,000 men to march on Austria. Siege of the city commenced on July 14, 1683. Vienna was protected by substantial walls, but only 12,000 men garrisoned the city and as all food supplies were cut off, near famine conditions began.
Meanwhile, the Polish king Jan III Sobeski prepared a relief army. Jan was not motivated by mere Christian fervor to drive off the infidel, but also entirely practical reasons...if Austria fell, then Poland would also be exposed to the Ottomans. Some 80,000 Poles and Austrians marched to relieve the beleaugered city, with Jan Sobeski, already renowned in Europe as a battlefield tactician, in overall charge.
The relief army had to act quickly to save the city and prevent another long siege. Despite the binational composition of the army and the short space of only six days, an effective leadership structure was established, centered on the King of Poland and his heavy cavalry (Polish Hussars). The Holy League settled the issues of payment by using all available funds from the government, loans from several wealthy bankers and noblemen and large sums of money from the Pope. Also, the Habsburgs and Poles agreed that the Polish government would pay for its own troops while still in Poland, but that they would be paid by the Emperor once they had crossed into imperial territory. However, the Emperor had to recognize Sobieski’s claim to first rights of plunder of the enemy camp in the event of a victory.
On September 12, the battle was joined. With most of the Ottoman artillery facing Vienna, the troops confronting the allied army were left almost without any artillery support. After an infantry clash early in the day, the Polish hussars began their attack. With the Ottoman army surrounded on three sides, panic began to set in. In one of history's greatest cavalry charges, 20,000 allied horsemen, with Jan Sobeski personally leading his elite "Winged Hussars" in front, the Ottomans dropped their weapons and began to flee, the troops besieging Vienna reluctantly following behind.
The battle was described in contemporary Ottoman histories as "one of the worst battlefield defeats in our history" with at least 35,000 casualties and another 5,000 men taken prisoner. Allied casualties numbered about 19,000. It was the beginning of the end for Ottoman imperial dominance, and the dawning realization in Europe that their long-feared nemesis was not invincible. Over the next decade and a half, Hungary would be liberated from the Ottoman yoke, and the Treaty of Pressburg in 1699 confirmed these territorial changes.
Bentley Anderson
This has been a completely random history trivia post. Hopefully it was education for you, Sup Forums.
Juan Long
neat
Blake Baker
>Hhhey gguise my country is totally irrelevant now but lllook at this battle we won 400 years ago.
Xavier Powell
>muh relevancy Shut the fuck up you stupid fat yank
Liam Myers
No need to be rude my dude.
Chase Moore
>yfw the Ottomans were actually the good guys
During the Irish potato famine, the Ottoman Sultan had originally intended to send £10,000, but British diplomats requested that the Sultan send only £1,000, so as not to donate more than Queen Victoria, who had sent £2,000. He is also said to have sent three or five ships full of food. The British administration allegedly attempted to block the ships.
Jonathan Taylor
How did we end up becoming enemies anyway, Poland? We're so cool together.
Jayden Lopez
You kraut bastards are inherently evil, so you moved against us
Hunter Williams
If only Crimeans didnt betray us. Giray Khan was supposed hold Jan Sobeski. Instead he fucked off backed to Crimea,refusing the Sultan's order. Look at Crimea now they are a minority in their own land lmaoooo fuckin shitters.
Adrian Clark
True. We should have join turks and wipe kraut menace off the face of Earth.
Sebastian Hill
well played polan buddy
Jason Baker
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Landon Campbell
Well we're also inherently clever so clearly there was a good reason for that.
Parker Ward
>His cunt has a short history that nobody except for Americans care about >People from around the world are fascinated by European history >LMAO FAGS! MUH RELEVANCY! PAY ATTENTION TO AMERICA PLS! WE NUMBA WUN!
David Reyes
Besides, Ottoman Turkey never acknowledged the partitions of Poland and kept a Polish embassy in Istanbul all the time. They were assholes to balkanlar, but in the Balkan wars of independence, Balkan Turks (mostly city dwellers, educated white collar workers etc) were ruthlessly exterminated in one of the lesser known genocides in history.
Justin Johnson
Removing the Ottoman Empire from Hungary was a mistake
G*rmans and Austri*ns are far worse than any Turk.
Brayden Powell
oh shit, looks like I pissed off the wrong l*af
Jaxson Carter
Should we cry about muh genocide?
Carson Gray
>>The Khan sent envoys to Saint Petersburg to sue for peace. During this mission Catherine II met Şahin Giray and wrote of him: "The Crimean Prince is the most gentle Tatar, I have ever seen. He's very talented, bronze-colored, good-looking, circumcised and writes poetry. He wants to see and learn everything."
What did she mean by this?
Leo Cruz
She was a known degenerate
Joshua Howard
>Even great Empresses prefer cut dicks UNCUT SAVAGES BTFO!
Carter Barnes
Wallachia was cooler desu.
Ethan White
KHAN'D
Evan Turner
el americANO
Christopher Barnes
very nice, I rate it Kielbasa/10
Hudson Nguyen
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Jackson Cox
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Michael Anderson
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Lincoln Mitchell
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Oliver Miller
>this could be us but you playin'
Eli Powell
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Mason White
went to a 'time travel' museum in vienna the other day and learnt about this only time I've ever heard Poland having any relevance in history that isn't getting utterly BTFO
check this one, it's in short and a blog. but it's basically a timeline of polish history
Nolan Gonzalez
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Michael Carter
thanks I did already know a bit about the ottoman empire and Vienna but the emphasis they put on the polish help surprised me no
Dylan Smith
>no
Caleb Edwards
It depends. Are you Armenian or Jewish?
Jacob Diaz
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Ayden Long
For a woman who was used to fucking her horse, it is an improvement to get laid with a Tatar.
German porn, not even once
Daniel Fisher
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Grayson Miller
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Oliver Garcia
Is there actual evidence that she fucked horses? Always thought that was a rumor
Easton Ward
It's propaganda
Lucas Cook
Cute, but we did the same 100 years before :^)
Julian Ward
That was pretty cool, thx user
Robert Moore
>They were assholes to balkanlar, but in the Balkan wars of independence, Balkan Turks (mostly city dwellers, educated white collar workers etc) were ruthlessly exterminated in one of the lesser known genocides in history.
A really tiny fraction of urban Balkanic Muslims was actually Turkish. It is the exact reason why those mujahireen changed the looks of many Anatolian cities after 1878
William Murphy
these is a certain mutual respect between the polish and turks
i hear from polish that they respect them from using honorfull tactics in battle, just as the turks do
im pretty sure that turkish sultan soap opera is very famous in poland
turks also did not recognize the partition of poland
in a better world the poles and turks would have teamed up and split europe between them, cause fuck europeans
Caleb Hill
t. Turk >Fails to mention that only 20,000 of the 80,000 were Germans
No gzegozh, your soldiers dont cost 100 russians, and you dont have nuclear weapon and strong ar,y
Justin Hughes
History says otherwise.
Russia just throws their "people" like fucking garbage.
1 milion army against 200k on the opposite site? Fine What? They all fucking died? Let's send another 2 milions.
Ian Harris
1 Finnish farmer = 500 russian "soldiers"
Jason Nguyen
why are Polacken the most immensely butthurt people in the world Commonwealth was a incapable and failed clay of shit and you know it
Luke Ramirez
I'm sorry, but you're the one butthurt here.
Jason Baker
ZERO PROPAGANDA LEVEL ONE FINNISH GUY KILL 1.000.000 SOVIETS BUT DONT PROOVE IT BUT WE WIIL BELIEVE HIM
Oliver Wood
>timeline of polish history >no mention of sweden
Jose Carter
>Commonwealth was a incapable and failed clay of shit and you know it t. "Holy" "Roman" "Empire"
Owen Hughes
not even comparable, try again m8
Ryder Scott
>be russian >get noscoped by a Finnish farmer >kdr 0:500
Mason Edwards
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Aiden Butler
You're right, one was a country and the other was a embarrassing mess of city states.
Jack Bell
Commonwealth also enslave Ukrainian peasants. Polish nobility whip us rob us and draft us to fight their wars. not defending what Bandera did but you should understand rage Ukrainians felt.
Carson Johnson
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Joseph Cox
Commonwealth was the best time for Ukraine if you consider all of your history.
If it wasn't for the cossacks chimping out, Ukrainians would live much better.
Josiah Martinez
funny then how some embarrassing city states managed to get a king of the throne of """Great""" Britain :^)
Jackson Miller
I don't recall Great Britain losing to Napoleon and collapsing :^)
Cooper Howard
And sack Rome and take the Pope as hostage. Can't get much more Roman or holier than that.
Dylan Jones
HRE: >every single state fights with each other >gets brutally anally raped by France every century >gets majority of its population genocided in a religious war >can't unite even in a face of a common threat >doesn't matter at all, except inbred Austrian family >shitty army, can't even fight off Turks
>Rzeczpospolita: >religious tolerance: Islam, Christianity, Lutheranism, Judaism - all welcome >no religious wars >no discrimination >women are treated with respect >can actually unite when facing a common threat >important for stability between West and East >best cavalry in the history of Europe >allows HRE to exist
Wyatt Gomez
"Every noble, even the poorest one, had equal voting rights as everyone else. That was one of the main reasons PLC fell apart by the way. And Lithuanian nobles polonized themselves on their own, without anyone forcing this on them, because their peasant language didn't even had a writing script at the time. It was kinda like with the English and the Normans. Forcing polonization, Lithuanian national identity, squabbles over Vilinus and all that crap happened much later, when Poland recovered after partitions and Piłsudski (who, by the way, was born right under Vilinus, so he was basically a Polish Lithuanian) believed restoring the Commonwealth (the Intermarium project and the concept of Prometheism) will help the Central/Eastern Europe survive the incoming war and push back the Soviets again. But every old region of the Commonwealth already had its own brand of memenationalist retards with the foresight of a braindead toddler and as a result all of us got utterly fucked in every possible sense and we are still recovering from the damage done by communism."
