Battle of vienna ottoman empire8/15/2023 ![]() Oil on canvas by unknown artist, late seventeenth century. The Battle of Vienna a took place at Kahlenberg Mountain near Vienna on 12 September 1683 2 after the city had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months. Stephen’s Cathedral, can be seen in the background. The city of Vienna, including the famous St. His heroic posture sets him apart from the confusion of smoke, men, and weaponry depicted in the image. A robust Sobieski appears on horseback, slightly left of center and in the extreme foreground of the scene (in fact, one of his horse’s hooves is cut off by the lower edge of the canvas). This painting shows the relief army descending from a hillside overlooking Vienna (the Kahlenberg hillside is visible on the left). The people of Vienna embraced Sobieski as their liberator. Under Sobieski’s command, imperial forces scored a decisive victory over Ottoman troops at the Battle of Kahlenberg on September 12, 1683, and thereby lifted the siege. The combined relief army of approximately 80,000 troops consisted of roughly 27,000 Polish soldiers (among them 3,000 highly trained “Winged Hussars”) 19,000 Austrians 10,500 Bavarians 9,000 Saxons and 9,500 soldiers from the southwestern German principalities. Sobieski agreed and joined Charles of Lorraine, the electors of Saxony and Bavaria, and numerous German princes in an alliance against the Turks. ![]() Alarmed by this threat to Christian Europe, Pope Innocent XI asked Polish king Jan Sobieski (r. In July 1683, roughly 150,000 Ottoman troops laid siege to Vienna, the capital of the Holy Roman Empire. The Battle of Kahlenberg: Imperial Troops Defeat the Turks on Septem(Late 17th Century) ![]()
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