Polish winged hussar
Posted on 09/13/2014 7:10:43 AM PDT by wtd
In the summer of 1683, 300,000 soldiers of the Ottoman empire began the Siege of Vienna. The fall of the city would open the way to conquer europe..
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The Ottomans were much more of a threat to Europe the first time they laid siege to Vienna than the second time. Of course, that was little comfort to the inhabitants of Vienna.
The first time was in 1589.
I just bought DAY OF THE SIEGE.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1899285/
While not up to the standards of the epics from the Bronson studios in the 1960s (55 DAYS AT PEKING, EL CID, FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE), it is still a good movie.
It was listed as a WAR/FANTASY. I saw no fantasy in it.
If given a BIG budget the story of the siege of Vienna (Or even Lepanto)would be fascinating, but it probably would not sell in the moslem countries so Hollywood will continue to churn out high dollar super hero crap.
Some of the best movies today are turned out by small foreign studios.
This video is actually the movie “ Day of the Siege”.
September 11 1565 -Malta
The relieving forces under Viceroy of Sicily drove the
Ottoman army off the island
The Knight of St John had resisted a siege all summer repulsing numerous attack and suffering heavy losses
Only few hundred men remained able to resist when siege was broken
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Siege_of_Malta
The first time was in 1589.
1529 - Turks were done in by weather, it rained heavily all that year
Turks were unable to bring up heavy siege guns until too late
Jan Sobieski’s Polish cavalry and Bavarian and other Christian armies totalling about 100,000 men broke the siege of of Vienna on September 11 and September 12, 1683 and defeated about 300,000 Muslims. Sobieski had entrusted his kingdom to the protection of the Blessed Virgin (Our Lady of Czestochowa) before the battle.
Like today, Muslims did not take prisoners or spare civilians. Christian women and children were raped, tortured and murdered. Some were sold into slavery. Wounded and captured men were slaughtered.
September 11 is an important date to Muslims. They want to attack Christians on September 11.
Conquering Europe would have been a tall order. in the 1680's, France under King Louis XIV was a military powerhouse, and Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Holland and Brandenburg-Prussia all had potent armies. But had Vienna fallen, the Ottoman Empire would have likely have become a major player in European politics, at least for a while.
Polish winged hussar
Agree 100% . . .GatesofVienna is one of my daily visits (many days multiple stops). My mornings are not complete without a stop at GatesofVienna, VladTepesblog.com, TundraTabloids.com, and FreeRepublic.
Detroit five times a day.
It's been downhill ever since.
The Turkish big guns weren’t all that effective. Their rait of fire was abysmal, once ever three hours or so, and their accuracy was worse. To be more effective than pure luck they had to get close enough to the city walls to be in range of the city’s many smaller more accurate guns. They were like the Turkish pipers and drummers- aiming to intimidate the defenders with their noise and with the sheer size of the cannons which were actually technologically obsolete before they were first cast.
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