How did the Ottomans Lose the Battle of Vienna? (1683) | Animated History

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Source:
Csendes, Peter. Historical Dictionary of Vienna. Scarecrow Press, 1999.
Dalerac, M. Polish Manuscripts, or, The Secret History of the Reign of John Sobieski the III of that Name, K of Poland. Containing A Particular Account of the Siege of Vienna. London: 1700 (translated from French).
Wheatcroft, Andrew. "The Enemy at the Gate." Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe (2008).

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Antonio Salieri, Twenty six variations on La Folia de Spagna
London Mozart Players
Matthias Bamert, as conductor

[lukaszjaskulski]

And 90 years later Austria dismantled Poland together with Prussia and Russia.What a way to say thank You to Poland

[marekjan]

And now Vienna gov wnats to remove monument of Sobieski. They found it offending to Turkish minority...

[HistoryTime]

Thanks for the shoutout Armchair Historian! Great video btw!

[jonsson]

And less than 100 years later Austria took part in annexation of Poland....

[davidciesla]

Fun fact: Following Poland's partitions, with the last one being in 1795, the only country that did not acknowledge the partition of Poland and still treated it as sovereign was the Ottoman Empire due to the respect that they had for Poland reaching back to this battle.

[enclavesoldier]

I want to add another reason for why the Ottomans lost to the Habsburgs and the Holy Leauge, a man named Georg Rimpler. Georg was a German mercenary engineer who had excelled at defensive structures and fortifying areas, and had experience fighting the Ottomans. He was in charge of building defenses around the city, which was in no shape ready, because the walls were medieval and held in place by gravity and could easily be knocked down. Georg and the Austrian Commander had just over a week to prepare the city, Georg set up earthworks, palisades, trenches, and defenses in the city. By the end he made the city a deathtrap, slowing the Ottomans as they advanced and giving the garrison and the Holy Leauge precious time. Sadly Georg did not live to see Vienna be saved, he died in the city's hospital after taking serious wounds from a Ottoman mine while inspecting his defenses. He never got credit for the defense and was mostly forgotten.

[fawfulbenivictor]

The colors of the polish flag meanings
Red:bravery
White:loyalty
Blue:good allies

[nezihlevent]

I remember living in Poland to work for a company. There was a statue and my Polish friend smiling at me explaining who he was. That guy was the commander of the hussar armies :)

[Johnlanzer]

18, 000 horsemen cavalry charge... Now I know where Tolkien got his inspiration for the Riders of Rohan charge at Pellanor Fields.

[MrQmicic]

Jan III Sobieski: Hey, Kara Mustafa!
Kara Mustafa: What?
Jan III Sobieski: Vienna.
Kara Mustafa: I don't get it...
Jan III Sobieski: Exactly!

[robertperner]

Fun facts: The Croissant was invented after the siege to commemorate it, hence the crescent shape. Also, coffee beans that were left behind by the Ottomans eventually led to Vienna's numerous Cafes and started the city's coffee culture.

[robertcalhoun]

When I was in college, we had a professor in the history who would jump up on his desk and tell this story at the top of his lungs and screaming that it was the most important battle ever because it gave us COFFEE!

[Tytoalba]

I'm not even going to bother saying it. Everyone else is going to.

What I will do is point out that the Coat of Arms of Poland is an Eagle, and the Coat of Arms of Lithuania is a Knight. Put them together and you get a Winged Hussar

[obiologo]

The Rohan's charge in LoTR must have been inspired by the polish charge against the ottomans...

[aliasn]

+33% Calvary combat ability intensifies

[martinus_mars]

IT'S OVER OTTOMANS, I HAVE THE HIGH GROUND

[AlextheKaijuFan]

Expect a lot of Sabaton fans to be here, I'm one of them for instance. *WHEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!*

[halthammerzeit]

"The king's meeting with the emperor fell coldly. Leopold I did not take off his hat neither when Prince James was presented to him, nor when Polish banners bent before him during the review of the troops. It demolished Sobieski and all knights . Relations have deteriorated since this meeting. The Austrians stopped supplying Polish troops. They also refused to accept the burial of Polish soldiers in the city, indicating fields and cemeteries further away, where the fallen soldiers from the Turkish army were buried. There have been instances of opening fire to hungry Polish soldiers attempting to enter the city. They also made it difficult to obtain the ships needed to transport the wounded and sick to the hospital organized in Prezburg. After these actions, opinions appeared among Polish soldiers that the emperor had unnecessarily been given relief" Emil Bardysz, medical diary from the Viennese expedition of 1683, Warsaw 1984, p. 20, 26

[harrisonofcolorado]

Guy: *Talks about the Siege of Vienna*
Me: *WHEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!!!*

[ondergun]

The most important defeat of Ottoman history. After that battle, Ottomans had sufficient resource to get situation under control despite fighting against four major countries but Kara Mustapha Pasha was executed by the Sultan and all Ottoman lines got into disarray. In Turkish history, between 1683-1699 is called 'disastrous years'. It is very ironic that for Polish people whose Hussars had major role defeating the Ottomans, their country was partitioned by Habsburgs. Irony again, Ottomans didnt recognized this partition and accept immigration from Poland. There is still a town called as 'Polonezkoy', means Poland village where these immigrants settled and one of the most decent places in Istanbul.