Posted on 12/25/2020 8:05:16 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1683, the commander who just months before had brought the Turkish army to the gates of Vienna was executed in Belgrade for losing one of the pivotal battles in European history.
The Battle of Vienna saw the Ottoman Empire’s high tide and its last great bid to capture control of the strategic Danube city.
Despite an army of well over 100,000 that had besieged a frightened garrison numbering fewer than 20,000 soldiers and civilians, Kara Mustafa Pasha had been unable to reduce the city, and then decisively beaten after the timely arrival of a 70,000-strong relief force under the command of the Polish monarch Jan Sobieski. Here’s a great Italian map of the battle, with Mustafa himself hanging out in the lower corner; apparently, you can buy the original.
threat by a coalition of Christian forces — a sort of earthbound equivalent to the previous century’s Battle of Lepanto — has appeared as a signal clash-of-civilizations event. In the right audience, a knowing 1683 reference is a sort of dominionist gang handshake...
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Amazing battle. Amazing win for Christianity and the West. God be praised.
I believe my family was in that battle. Based on genealogy and genetics.
On which side?
The Polish Winged Hussars
We will have to fight this again but here.
The Polish are warriors.
We’re fighting it now. It’s a world war on many and diverse fronts. We’re winning in the field but on the back foot at home.
He suffered death by strangulation with a silk cord, which was the method of capital punishment inflicted on high-ranking persons in the Ottoman Empire. His last words were, “Am I to die?” and “As God pleases.”
Every so often the Poles have to be mustered to save Western Civilization -against the Ottomans at the Gates of Vienna, the Bolsheviks on the banks of the Vistula, the Comintern at the Gdansk Shipyards. Not sure if they’ve got another miracle to pull out of their hats in the current crises, but they are having a good time poking a stick in the eye of the Eurotrash-Elitists in the European Union
Note that both Poland and Hungary are on the incoming administration’s hit list because of their support for traditional values.
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