322nd Anniversary of "The Battle of Vienna" (Polish king saves Europe from Islam)

http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/EastEurope/ViennaSiege.html ^

[dts32041]

I thought Vlad the impaler stopped islam's spread or was that the first time it rose its ugly head.

[fallujah-nuker]

"The King of Poland saved Vienna. The Austrians later took part in two of the three partitions of Poland (1772 and 1795)."

And Hitler was an Austrian.

[Tribune7]

This before Ivan the Terrible time because I think Ivan the Terrible who b***hslap the Muslum tartars back wherever they came from

100 years after Ivan.

[txzman]

Thanks for the history post. Bad English, but wonderful, warm heart.

[Grzegorz 246]

Sobieski should have let Turks conquer those clowns. Maybe then Adolf would have never been born.

[hlmencken3]

The Muslims were just angry about support for Jews in Judea and the occupation of Babylon.

[bummerdude]

Bad English, but wonderful, warm heart.

I didn't write it, but it was the best article I could find that wasn't from Wikipedia

[popdonnelly]

Thank you, Jan Sobieski.

[DUMBGRUNT]

History will call him George W. Bush.

[spanalot]

Let's not forget the Cossacks who wrecked havoc on the
turks- one of which was given the first coffee concession in Vienna - which still stands in the same shop today.

www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/1933/013307.shtml

[rogue yam]

When Jan III got to the Vizer's tent, the Vizer had left behind, in addition to the coffee many have mentioned, a bunch of rugs and tapestries, etc. At the castle in Krakow today there is a room wherin is displayed much of this loot. I teased a Polish friend of mine about this, asking "When will Poland return this stuff to the Turks?" He said "Let them come take it!"

[SevenofNine]

OH I See Tribune okay

I thought go way back in da day around the time of Ivan the Terrible

[MadManDan]

All existentialist ponderings aside, I'm glad the Muslims didn't get Austria because I have some Austrian blood. :)

[F-117A]

[fotw]

It doesn't. The book ends with siege of Kamieniec in 1672, 11 years before Sobieski saved Vienna from the Ottomans. And by the way, Fire in The Steppe (literal translation of the title from Polish is "By Fire and Sword") is about Polish-Cossack wars in the Ukraine. The third - sequentially middle - novel of this trilogy, "The Deluge" is about Swedish invasion of Poland.

[Spirited]

Thank Roosevelt for that. The same Roosevelt for whom most all the Polish immigrants in America voted in that era.

[sharkhawk]

If I remember the battle from the Michener novel, the Turks were using sappers from a European country to get under Vienna's walls. Anyone guess who the Muslims ally in that war? The first two guesses don't count.

[F-117A]

Anyone guess who the Muslims ally in that war?

They also had about 15,000 Tartars as an ally. source

[REDWOOD99]

Amen, Bubba!

[dangus]

>> They also had about 15,000 Tartars as an ally. source <<

I'm sorry, but I missed that? What was your Tartar source?

(couldn't help it.)