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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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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...