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To: Congressman Billybob
Those who ignore the past are condemned to repeat it.

Battle (of Vienna 1683)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna

At 4 in the morning, on September 12, the Austrian army on the left, and the German forces in the center moved forward, in an attack (which was aimed at preventing another long siege) against the Turks. Mustafa Pasha launched a counter-attack, with most of his force. Then the Polish infantry launched a massive assault upon the right flank. After 12 hours of fighting, Sobieski's Polish force held the high ground on the right.

At about five o'clock in the afternoon, four cavalry groups, one of them Austrian-German, and the other three composed of Polish hussars, totaling 20,000 men in all and led by the Polish king, charged down the hills. In the confusion, they made straight for the Ottoman camps, while the Vienna garrison sallied out of its defenses, and joined in the assault. In less than three hours, the Polish forces won the battle, as the Turkish army beat a hasty retreat to the south and east.

The Turks lost about 15,000 men in the fighting, compared to approximately 4,000 for the Habsburg-Polish forces.

(The battle marked the turning point in the 300-year struggle between the forces of the Central European kingdoms, and the Ottoman Empire.)

64 posted on 02/23/2006 5:32:38 PM PST by SwinneySwitch (Terrorists-beyond your expectations!)
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To: SwinneySwitch

Another bump.


65 posted on 02/23/2006 5:47:26 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma
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