Posted on 11/28/2019 3:03:09 PM PST by OddLane
Europe is filled with great Gothic churches, but for me Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral has always been one of the greatest. Not because her soaring bell tower and serrated steeples are so much more beautiful than those of other cities, but because it was St. Stephen's that presided over some of Europe's most consequential battles, when the forces of Islam rode up to Vienna to smash through into Europe and do to her great cathedrals what they did to Constantinople's Hagia Sophia...
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An unstoppable force against a malleable object.
Europe has unarmed themselves and surrendered to the muzzies this time.
Sabaton - Winged Hussars (Lyrics English & Deutsch)
https://youtu.be/75zmIj_4LFQ
The battle for Vienna is the reason we have “Vienna Roast” coffee. The Saracens laid siege to Vienna but could not take it. They fled, leaving behind their bags of coffee. Not knowing how to preserve all that coffee, The Viennese roasted it, and thus Vienna Roast coffee was born.
“When at the end of the 17th century the Ottoman Empire had reached its greatest extent, the Turks under Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha tried to capture the imperial city of Vienna and thereby throw open the gateway to Central Europe. In 1683 he laid siege to the fortress with 140,000 troops, while there were only 11,000 men available for the city defense. In the following 60-days lasting siege the Turks built mines below the city walls, which they intended to bring down with explosive charges. These were on the verge of detonating, when on 11 September the Polish-German relief force arrived, with troops from the Holy Roman Empire (Austria, Bavaria, Franconia, Saxony, Swabia) and the Republic of Venice, under the leadership of Poland. The tide of battle was turned on 12 September, when the Polish King John III. Sobieski led his elite troops of the Winged Hussars (Husaria) down the Kahlenberg in the largest cavalry charge in history, battering the Ottoman elite of the Sipahi and Janissaries and entering the enemy camp.”
Note that a key date here was 9/11. Don’t ever think the guys who planned 9/11/2001 were not fully aware of the historical significance of the date. Not everyone is a modern government school educated American.
Thank you for your reminder that there is no place for militaristic and aggressive Islam amongst civilized people.
Jan Sobieski
Cool.
No. Obviously Europe doesn’t remember.
“those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it”
Great band.
Tak jest!
John III Sobieski is one of my heroes. God knows, Europe could use another man of his vision and caliber.
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