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On this day, 340 years ago, Jon Sobieski III, King of Poland & Grand Duke of Lithuania, led 3,000 Winged Hussars and 15,000 other horsemen down the hills over looking the besieged and battered city of Vienna. For 60 days, the Ottoman Turks, with their slave soldiers and Tatar raiders surrounded and terrorized the Capital of Austria, seeking to conquer it for the glory of Sultan Mehmed IV. The cruel Turks sought to bring down the walls with gunpowder tunnels, and sack the city with glee. But before all hope was lost for the defenders, a relief army of 90,000 men of the Holy League came to end the staggering siege. The Ottomans, unprepared, rushed to defend their camp as the wings and shining sabers of Poles crested on the hill above. With a light advance turning to a heavy charge, Sobieski and the 18,000 horses at his back, thundered down and into the Janissaries line, crushing them with a single blow. Today, it remains the largest cavalry charge in human history, and wiped out the Ottoman advance into central Europe, allowing for the Turks to be cast back to the walls of Istanbul, and never again threaten Holy Europea again. God bless The Poles, and Their Winged Hussars!

On this day, 340 years ago, Jon Sobieski III, King of Poland & Grand Duke of Lithuania, led 3,000 Winged Hussars and 15,000 other horsemen down the hills over looking the besieged and battered city of Vienna. For 60 days, the Ottoman Turks, with their slave soldiers and Tatar raiders surrounded and terrorized the Capital of Austria, seeking to conquer it for the glory of Sultan Mehmed IV. The cruel Turks sought to bring down the walls with gunpowder tunnels, and sack the city with glee. But before all hope was lost for the defenders, a relief army of 90,000 men of the Holy League came to end the staggering siege. The Ottomans, unprepared, rushed to defend their camp as the wings and shining sabers of Poles crested on the hill above. With a light advance turning to a heavy charge, Sobieski and the 18,000 horses at his back, thundered down and into the Janissaries line, crushing them with a single blow. Today, it remains the largest cavalry charge in human history, and wiped out the Ottoman advance into central Europe, allowing for the Turks to be cast back to the walls of Istanbul, and never again threaten Holy Europea again. God bless The Poles, and Their Winged Hussars!

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[–] • 4 pts

History 16th Century = Golden Age of Poland. No wars, no conflicts. Protestant Reformation spread peacefully. Living conditions improved. Universities, arts and sciences grow.

Then what happened? During the 16th and 17th Century Poland had the largest jewish population in the whole of Europe. 17th & 18th Century partitions and wars. Politics problems and foreign interventions. 19th Century - didn't exist. 20th Century, jew problems, holocaust lies, and commie jews take over government positions and judicial positions. Meanwhile Hollywood jews and their polack narratives are fed to US since jews can't forgive Poles for jew holocaust narrative lies and Poles resist USA demands to give money and land to US jews with no connection to Poland. Post WW2 Poland is carved up and Polish jews are now magically Ukrainian jews since jews have no other ethnicity or state loyalty. 21st Century - Ukraine jews under leadership of jew Zelenskyyy drag everyone in NATO and USA into pointless fight with Russia.

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Could you imagine what that must've sounded like, the beat of 20,000 something horses all charging at once? It probably sounded like the end of the fucking world to the Janissaries.

On the Janissaries- I always found their story interesting, and tragic, of course. They were elite Ottoman infantry... and they were almost exclusively recruited from White Christian slaves. They were very, very well-treated and well-trained. It's like the Ottoman's knew that having an elite force of Whites would be better than Arabs, for w/e reason.

But this makes it all the more tragic when you realize that those 20k+ cavalry were riding down thousands of White people and running them through with lances, cutting them down with sabers, and shooting them dead. Of course, Arabs were butchered by the thousands as well, but that's not ever really a tragedy...

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

This has to be one of the most badass things I've ever heard. I'm going to have to look up recreations of those wings

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This real life save-the-day-when-all-appears-lost charge was the inspiration of The Ride of The Rohirrim in LOTR Return of The King.

https://youtu.be/aYZHew0xJxM?si=ZaO8yTbPcc4OJr9i

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Amen. The Winged Hussars were fucking bad-ass. And now I have the Sabbaton song playing in my head.

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You ever hear the sound their wings make when they're riding?

Imagine the terror that would cause among the enemy, when there's over ten thousand of them charging together. Hoofbeats thundering, guns pounding, shots trading, and then this odd whistling sound from the north...

I wish I could've seen the faces of the Ottoman's when they realized what was happening. The sources make it sound like it was so sudden, that it was already far too late for the Ottoman's by the time they knew "The Polish have arrived".