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1683: Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha, for the Battle of Vienna
ExecutedToday.com ^ | December 25, 2009 | Headsman

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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1 posted on 12/25/2020 8:05:16 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat

Amazing battle. Amazing win for Christianity and the West. God be praised.


2 posted on 12/25/2020 8:14:50 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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I believe my family was in that battle. Based on genealogy and genetics.


3 posted on 12/25/2020 8:19:23 AM PST by sharpee
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To: sharpee

On which side?


4 posted on 12/25/2020 8:21:42 AM PST by nightlight7
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To: CheshireTheCat

The Polish Winged Hussars


5 posted on 12/25/2020 8:23:07 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: WashingtonSource

We will have to fight this again but here.


6 posted on 12/25/2020 8:29:17 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: CheshireTheCat
Why is this centuries old battle in Europe important to Americans? Because it is date of this defeat , Sept. 11, that Bin Laden choose for Islam's revenge! ( It is also where Croissants were invented, a symbolic chewing up of the Islamic Crescent)
7 posted on 12/25/2020 8:32:13 AM PST by Nateman (Democracy dies with voted fraud darkness.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

The Polish are warriors.


8 posted on 12/25/2020 8:43:03 AM PST by myerson (The coup is fully out in the open)
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To: Jimmy Valentine

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.


9 posted on 12/25/2020 8:46:15 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: CheshireTheCat

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.”


10 posted on 12/25/2020 9:05:54 AM PST by laweeks (Just wait till you have to have a biopsy from your prostate, now that is an experience you will neve)
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To: Dr. Ursus

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


11 posted on 12/25/2020 9:46:30 AM PST by Stosh
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Note that both Poland and Hungary are on the incoming administration’s hit list because of their support for traditional values.


12 posted on 12/25/2020 11:04:57 AM PST by kaehurowing
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