Remembering when Christian cavalry smashed the Muslim army and saved Europe

The Bridgehead ^ | Jonathon Van Maren

[princeofdarkness]

Who is that?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Vlad really had a way of making a point to those who invaded his land.

[Jimmy Valentine]

An associated story is that Vienna’s bakers heard the Turks digging and helped counter mine to stop them. After the Turks retreat, they baked a celebratory roll in the shape of a crescent, thus the croissant was born.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Nice picture of the Wallachian prince Vlad Dracula.

[DNME]

The same Moorish attack on the same city today would not be stopped.

[C19fan]

There is a group that wants to put a statue of John Sobieski in Vienna. The mayor of Vienna has refused afraid it will offend the Muzzies. The statue is being displayed in a Polish city waiting to be transported to Vienna.

[C19fan]

Video from a 2012 movie showing the charge. F. Murray Abraham plays the Capuchin monk who rallied to defense:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8zCv0AHnCs

[C19fan]

Perhaps the most important battle nobody outside Poland knows about. The brilliant Red Army Marshall Mikhail Tukhachevsky led one of the Red Armies. Stalin was leading an army in Poland too.

[Maine Mariner]

I agree with your excellent comments. You mentioned Marshall Mikhail Tukhachevsky, who was later executed during the army purges of the late 1930s; he certained thought the invasion of Poland would lead to revolution in all of Europe. I am beginning to think that the Battle of Warsaw was as important as the Battle of Tours and the Seige of Vienna

[xp38]

Also croissants which mock the crescent moon symbol of Islam. A ham and cheese croissant may be the most anti Islamic food ever.

[Altura Ct.]

There is an interesting cultural footnote to all of this. Most people do not know that J.R.R. Tolkien's famous Battle of Pelennor Fields, the struggle for the city of Minas Tirith between the soldiers of Gondor and the forces of the Dark Lord Sauron recounted in The Return of the King, is actually based on the charge of King Jan Sobieski and his Winged Hussars.

Yes, defenders of the West and Christianity! We need a return to strong defenders of both. We have way too many namby-pamby Westerners and pablum Christians .

[Phil DiBasquette]

Leelee Sobieski

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

“Day of the Siege” is a great movie about this historical event.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

On Netflix I believe. Well worth watching.