Battle Of Vienna Essay

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The Battle of Vienna took place in Vienna on 11-12 September 1683, after the imperial city of Vienna had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months. The battle was fought by the Holy Roman Empire under the command of King Jan III Sobieski of the Commonwealth against the invading Muslim Ottoman Empire, it took place at Kahlenberg Mountain near Vienna. The battle marked the first time Poland and the Holy Roman Empire had cooperated militarily against the Turks, and it is often seen as a turning point in history, after which "the Ottoman Turks ceased to be a menace to the Christian world”.the war lasted until 1698, and the Turks lost almost all of Hungary to the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I. The battle was won by the combined forces of …show more content…

The logistics of the time meant that it would have been risky or impossible to launch an invasion in August or September 1682 (a three-month campaign would have taken the Ottomans to Vienna just as winter set in). However, this 15-month gap between mobilization and the launch of a full-scale invasion allowed ample time for Vienna to prepare its defense and for Leopold to assemble troops from the Holy Roman Empire and set up an alliance with Poland, Venice and The Pope. Undoubtedly this contributed to the failure of the Ottoman campaign. The decisive alliance of the Holy Roman Empire with Poland was concluded in the 1683 Treaty of Warsaw, in which Leopold promised support to Sobieski if the Ottomans attacked Kraków; in return, the Polish Army would come to the relief of Vienna if it were attacked. Turkish troops reached Belgrade by early May. They were joined by a Transylvanian army under Prince Mihaly Apafi and a Hungarian force under Imre Thököly, they laid siege to Győr and the remaining army of 150,000 moved toward the city of Vienna. About 40,000 Crimean troops arrived 40 kilometres east of Vienna on 7 July, twice as many as the Imperial troops in the

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