Today is the anniversary of when King Jan(John) Sobieski of Poland broke the two month long second Siege of Vienna by leading one of the largest cavalry charges in history with over 30k Polish and German horsemen with Sobieski and 3k Winged Hussars leading the charge(and Sobieski doing this while being overweight and almost sixty years old). Sobieski's charge broke the moral of the Ottomans and forced them to flee the battle. The Battle of Vienna became one of Europe's great victories over the Ottomans. After the Battle of Vienna the Ottoman military power rapidly declined in the region and they lost most of their territory in the Balkans to emerging European powers. Also random facts the jews were thrown out of Vienna in 1670 and from Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1650(which prevented the Gates of Vienna from being opened to the Turks).
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