Turkish Empire, etc.," translated, London, 1676, etc. Montecuculi " De la Guillatière's "View of the Present State of the Military Maxims," published late in the seventeenth century "Works of "History of the Turks " Salvandy's "History of Poland " "Memoirs ofĮugene," by De Ligne "Memoirs of Charles, Duke of Lorraine, and his Schimmer's "Sieges of Vienna " Von Hammer's My principal authorities are "Sobieski's Letters to his Queen," editedīy Count Plater, Paris, 1826 Starhemberg's "Life and Despatches,"Įdited by Count Thürheim, Vienna, 1882 "Campaigns of Prince Eugene, of Worth the telling, and to explain not only the details, but the widerīearings also, of a great crisis in European history, no satisfactoryĪccount of which exists, I believe, in English, and the two hundredth I have thought it worth while to tell to the general reader a story The historical scholar will find nothing new in the following pages but ( The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved.) Images of the original pages are available through ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VIENNA 1683***Į-text prepared by Turgut Dincer, Martin Pettit,Īnd the Online Distributed Proofreading Teamįrom page images generously made available by The History and Consequences of the Defeat of the Turks before Vienna, September 12, 1683, by John Sobieski, King of Poland, and Charles Leopold, Duke of Lorraine Located in the United States, you'll have to check the laws of theĬountry where you are located before using this ebook. Under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this You may copy it, give it away or re-use it This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United StatesĪnd most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no The knowledge of languages and lifeways gained during this intimate, painful embrace and struggle helped set the stage for European exploration of the Middle East in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.The Project Gutenberg eBook of Vienna 1683, by Henry Elliot Malden The Project Gutenberg eBook, Vienna 1683, by Henry Elliot Malden After another 150 years of competition, exchange, and conflict, culminating in another battle of Vienna in 1683, European powers began to push the Ottomans out of southeastern Europe. Only the heavy castle-like fortifications are unrealistic versions of earthworks that defended the city. The combatants are portrayed in flattering detail, accurate to the time, without any metaphorical allusions to past conflicts, and without any suggestion of brutality. The defenders, in fine black armor, under the black and gold standards of the Habsburgs, are apparently unaffected. Suleiman and his richly dressed war council discuss the situation in a tent outside their fortified camp. This Ottoman illustration depicts the beginning of the siege, when massed Ottoman cannon bombarded the walls of Vienna without success. In 1529, the Ottoman Suleiman the Magnificent (1520-1566 CE) laid siege to Vienna, the eastern stronghold of the Habsburg Empire. It was and is sometimes portrayed as a contest between East and West, between Christendom and Islam, but at a time when Christendom was about to go to war with itself, when Persian shahs were sending emissaries to European kings and Ottoman sultans were sending support to Dutch Protestants, the real identity of the combatants was never so simple. The struggle between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans took place deep within Christian Europe. Ottoman expansion into southeastern Europe reached its maximum extent just as the wars of religion were breaking out in western Europe. On their eastern frontiers, the Sunni Ottoman rulers faced off against the Shi’i shahs of Safavid Persia, and on their western frontiers against the Catholic Habsburg rulers of Austria and the Holy Roman Empire. In the early 1500s CE the Ottoman Empire included predominantly Muslim Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Mesopotamia as well as predominantly Christian southeastern Europe, lands that now belong to Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Hungary.
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