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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.
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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.
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This has been a completely random history trivia post. Hopefully it was education for you, /int/.
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Yeah, a totally random, non-self serving, non-smug bit of historical trivia, amirite?
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I wish the Ottomans took over Europe
Too bad the Safavids couldn't become allies with the Ottomans and took Europe in the name of Islam
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>Pooland fapping over the one time in his history he fucked someone instead of being fucked
Next up: Finland makes a thread about 1939
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>>66473297
Should be during 1618 when the Finns were first introduced to the world stage, with their utter brutality used against the Catholic states whilst fighting with the Protestant Union through Sweden during the Thirty Years' War.
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>>66473440
>Sweden loses its balls in 1809
>no more wars
Yup.
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>I'm totally not making this thread to cover for my insecurity over how shitty my country is...
>p-pls remember what we did
>pls respond
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If the Safavids weren't such assholes the Ottomans wouldn't have needed to fight on two fronts.
Oh, how I wish the Umayyads and the Ottomans took over the rest of Europe.
What a shame.
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WE
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>>66473256
don't you have an orphanage to be blowing up mohammed?
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>>66472839
>r-r-remember w-when we indirectly won a battle 400 years ago? that sure makes up for us being a doormat of Russia and Germany
kek. pooland, not even once
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>>66474575
Poland saved Europe you fucking idiot, if it wouldn't be for Poland your country wouldn't even exist because the europeans had to invest in holding the Ottomans off instead of colonization
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>>66472839
Thank you Poland. It's a shame that G*rmans are undoing your hard work by letting in the invading Turks
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>>66472839
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>>66472839
Thanks Poland shame underaged faggots have to be disrespectful and say >"poland shit now XDD" I wish reddit would leave thanks for defending Europe.
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>>66473106
>>66473297
>>66473440
>>66473591
>>66473649
>>66474575
kill yourselves
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>>66474752
>literally less history than the US of A
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>it's a we get our pride from reading Wikipedia articles on shit our countries done episode
Why can't people get their own pride anymore? They have to siphon it off from the dead.
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>poolacks have to go back 330 years to find a great victory for their country
Meanwhile in the civilized world.
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Now do one about the Polish-Soviet war, in which you gloss over the fact that Poland started a war against Russia while Russia was at war with itself and almost lost.
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>>66472839
>you will never gloriously ride into battle, DEUS VULTing mudslimes into the ground under your hooves
>you will never take part in the greatest charge in history while also saving the capital of Christianity
>you will never sow the seed of defeat in the invading asian empire like the greeks two thousand years before
>not based
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>>66474575
Why do you shit on Poland completely though?
We only were a "doormat" for them for 200 years? Our history goes back to 900-966, some even argue 500-600AD.
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>>66473297
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmTdE29N5jI
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>>66479696
some even argue 9000BC when Polish dominate the solar system
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>>66475388
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4I61EkSdgg
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>>66475773
>the fact that Poland started a war against Russia while Russia was at war with itself and almost lost.
Oh you dumb fuck...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_westward_offensive_of_1918–19
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>Hundred years later they participate in PLC partition and Ottomans are the only ones who didn't accept the partition
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>>66480811
I don't know why you're making fun of it.
Read Viking sagas and Teutonic chronicle.
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>>66474752
t.Janusz Kalinsky
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>>66480956
I'm not making fun of you
Poland is the cradle of civilisation
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>>66480956
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>>66480811
this and also /thread
nederdaad takes the day folks
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>>66480811
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>>66474645
It's funny that russians have so many memes about Poland and yet claim that we are the butthurt ones.
Kek.
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>>66480980
>>66480975
>Poland is the cradle of civilisation
No, that would be Sumeria.
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>>66481030
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_Day_(Russia)
You can't get more butthurt than that. And that's mostly because Eastern Slavs still have that mindset, that Poles are "Pany" and they're just "chamy".
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>>66481059
>No, that would be Sumeria.
Sarmatia
MY
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>>66474752
t.
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Thanks :3
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>>66472839
The neighborhood in my where i used to live is named Vladislav Varnenchik
Never 4get :3
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>>66481059
Sumerians were ancient Poles
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>>66481149
We wuz coffeemakers n shiet
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>Jan Kazimierz Sapieha the Younger delayed the march of the Lithuanian army, devastating the Hungarian Highlands (now Slovakia) instead, and arrived in Vienna only after it had been relieved
>devastating the Hungarian Highlands (now Slovakia) instead
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIRrsIIJsFQ
>>66481285
You got some things mixed up, JUST SLIGHTLY I would say.
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>>66473440
Das rite
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>>66481513
Funny how he became good after he got his shit handed by Poland-Lithuania.
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>>66481630
Delet
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>>66481513
>33.000 mercenaries
AHAHAHAHAHAHAH
After 2 decades of the leagues tearing each other apart and with complete french funding that cuck manages to get smoked by 2 croats squatting in the mud.
>>66473256
>>66473612
Because "Europe" was an unified front right?
Lets not mention the famous Franco-Ottoman alliance and you take some time to pull your head out of your ass.
All that being said Im glad that Poland was such a good Christian brother in times of need, couldnt have wished for a better partner to remove this scourge of humanity.
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