Siege and Battle of Vienna - War with Ottoman Empire - Decisive Holy League victory

Song: "My words will not pass away!" by Rafael Brom From album "Life is good, enjoy it while you can" http://www.marianland.com/music/lifeisgoodalbum.html MP3 - Single Song Download http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rafaelbrommusic Radio Station: http://www.litefm.com/new2/artists/cosmotone11 Sultan Mehmed IV, Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, King John III Sobieski, Sipahis (cavalry knights) of the Ottoman Empire at Vienna, Sobieski at Vienna by Juliusz Kossak, Battle of Vienna, painting by Józef Brandt, Polish soldiers 1674-1696, Return from Vienna by Józef Brandt, Polish-Lithuanian army returning with loot of the Ottoman forces. "Sobieski Sending Message of Victory to the Pope" by Jan Matejko. "Sobieski meeting Leopold I" by Artur Grottger. At Vienna, the Ottomans found overruning pike formations in the face concentrated musket fire a challenge too difficult to overcome. The Ottoman army consisted of both heavy & missile, cavalry and infantry, making it both versatile and powerful. Siege of Rhodes in 1522. Siege of Malta, 1565. Murad III's mismanagement may have led to early Ottoman defeats in the war, but he sired more than 100 children with 1,200 concubines. Sigismund III of Poland. A Spanish Galleon. The Galleon was a tough fighting ship of its time. Jan III, by Jan Matejko. Sobieski sending Message of Victory to the Pope after the Battle of Vienna. Painting by Jan Matejko, 1880, National Museum, Kraków. Mehmed II enters Constantinople. Battle of Mohács (1526) and the Ottoman conquest of Hungary. Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha defeated the Holy League of Charles V under the command of Andrea Doria at the Battle of Preveza in 1538. Battle of Lepanto in 1571. Siege of Ochakov in 1788. Janissary officers with the ranks Kara kullukçu (left and right) and Usta (center). A 15th century Janissary drawing by Gentile Bellini who also painted the renowned portrait of Sultan Mehmed II. The Grand Vizier giving an audience "under the dome". Kara Mustafa Pasha. Imre Thököly. Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV, a famous painting by Ilya Repin. Audience in the Diwan-i-Khas. Leopold IHoly Roman Emperor King of Hungary, King of Bohemia. A session of the Council of Trent, from an engraving. The Battle of Lepanto by Paolo Veronese (1571). In 1804, Vienna became the capital of the Austrian Empire and continued to play a major role in European and world politics, including hosting the 1814 Congress of Vienna. After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, Vienna remained the capital of what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. During the latter half of the 19th century, the city developed what had previously been the bastions and glacis into the Ringstraße, a major prestige project. Former suburbs were incorporated, and the city of Vienna grew dramatically. In 1918, after World War I, Vienna became capital of the First Austrian Republic. St. Stephen's Cathedral (Stephansdom) in 1905. Count Raimondo Montecúccoli. An African soldier of the Ottoman Empire. An Ottoman mehterân. Charles V, Duc de Lorraine. Innocent XI. Louis XIV. King of France and Navarre. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia. He urged the Council of Trent to approve Communion in Both kinds for German and Bohemian Catholics. Battle of Prevez. Coat of arms of Bohemia. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia. His firm Catholicism was the proximate cause of the war. Second Defenestration of Prague Frederick V, Elector Palatine as King. The Battle of Lens, 1648. Since they were a cavalry regiment it was well known within the Ottoman military circles that they considered themselves a superior stock of soldiers than Janissaries, who were a mixture of both Turkic and devşirme non-Turks, whereas the Sipahis were almost exclusively chosen amongst ethnic Turkic landowners. That minor quarrels erupted between the two units is made evident with a Turkmen adage, still used today within Turkey, "Atlı er başkaldırmaz", which, referring to the unruly Janissaries, translates into, "Horsemen don't mutiny". Towards the middle of the 16th century, the Janissaries had started to be the most important part of the army, though the Sipahis remained an important factor in the empire's economy and politics, and a crucial aspect of disciplined leadership within the army. As late as the 17th century, the Sipahis were, together with their rivals the Janissaries.