>It is recorded that the Polish cavalry slowly emerged from the forest to the cheers of the onlooking infantry, who had been anticipating their arrival. At 4:00 pm the Polish hussars first entered into action, battering the Turkish lines and approaching the Türkenschanze, which was now threatened from three sides (the Poles from the west, the Saxons and the Bavarians from the northwest and the Austrians from the north). At that point the Turkish vizier decided to leave this position and retreat to his headquarters in the main camp further south. However, by then many Ottomans were already leaving the battlefield.
>The allies were now ready for the last blow. At around 6:00 pm the Polish king ordered the cavalry attack in four groups, three Polish and one from the Holy Roman Empire. Eighteen thousand horsemen charged down the hills, one of the largest cavalry charges in history. John III Sobieski led the charge at the head of 3,000 Polish heavy lancers, the famed "Winged Hussars". The Lipka Tatars who fought on the Polish side wore a sprig of straw in their helmets to distinguish themselves from the Tatars fighting on the Ottoman side. The charge easily broke the lines of the Ottomans, who were exhausted and demoralized and soon started to flee the battlefield. The cavalry headed straight for the Ottoman camps and Kara Mustafa's headquarters, while the remaining Viennese garrison sallied out of its defenses to join in the assault.
>tfw you will never witness 150,000 turks be destroyed by 90,000 europeans, the largest battle in centuries
>won by the largest cavalry charge in history, by the invincible winged hussars
>in one of europe's largest cultural and population centers, after months of brutal sieging
also fun fact : The Ottoman Empire was the only major country in the world which did not recognize the Partitions of Poland and still mantained diplomatic link even after the PLC ceased to exist
Adrian Mitchell
Poland could spend the money it assembled to help Austria on rebuilding their state after the Swedish Deluge.
Hussars ain't free.
Dylan Smith
How were the Polish nobility treated in the countries that absorbed them?
Daniel Adams
>tfw you will never witness 150,000 turks be destroyed by 90,000 europeans, the largest battle in centuries
why would I want to see that
Josiah Powell
18,000 cavalry
jesus Christ im sitting here in my chair trying to imagine that
Jackson Peterson
None of this shit ever happened.
>There was no turkish empire. >The Ottomans were a myth. >An Islamic Caliphate dominated the area for nearly 200 years and was headquartered at Iraq. Turkey was a puppet state and was the Islamic states final push into europe before their logistics collapsed under their own weight.
>Don't believe everything you read in history books.
If the winged hussars were """"""""""""invincible"""""""""" how come pooland didn't exist on the map for like 200 years
checkmate atheists
Ryder Jenkins
Thanks to corrupt nobles.
Oliver White
Except it fucking clearly doesn't. >John III Sobieski led the charge at the head of 3,000 Polish heavy lancers, the famed "Winged Hussars". The Lipka Tatars who fought on the Polish side... That's 3,000 Hussars, in case it wasn't clear enough for you.
Evan Ortiz
why do they looks like turks
Brayden Edwards
lol
Carson Ward
Exactly you dumb polack. It mentions only hussars and not some fucking memerni.
Kayden Kelly
Polish cavalry was heavily influenced by Ottoman ones. Szabla, the chichack helmet, the stir-ups and saddles.
James Adams
Because they should've taken the offer of the Ottoman Empire and partitions Austria among themselves, to avoid the future backstabbing of galactic proportions.
Cooper Moore
>by Ottoman ones
you mean hungarian szablya is the huszár weapon and i dont need to explain horsemanship
Jordan Jackson
>How were the Polish nobility treated in the countries that absorbed them?
Luke Bell
Are you fucking retarded?
Kevin Sullivan
yeah and the great turkish war is actually assamite vs giovanni conflict right?
Caleb Perry
Being surrounded by top tier armies. They were located at the gap between western military traditions and eastern horse warfare traditions.
Christian Myers
Polacks are subhuman
Carson Sanchez
Because it was destroyed from the inside.
There were no fights or battles, just partition.
Luke Perez
now enter "polish people" and stop being a retard
Henry Hughes
MARCEL
Sebastian Flores
And yet, geopolitical machinations have dissolved their country, not armies.
Those are mostly images of British men who've killed Poles over the last two decades.
Ian Harris
Prawda boli nie polska kurwo?
BLUEEEGH LE STOP ISLAMIZACJI EUROPY O FUG EUROPA WOLI PAKISTAŃCZYKÓW OD POLAKÓW XD
w końcu was rozbiorą a ja będe o tak napierdalał
John Peterson
What if it was the Ottomans who were influenced by others ?
Grayson Morales
Hungarians got their szablya by Ottomans as well. Europeans armies didn't use that type of sabre until Turks came to the area, while Turks have been using them since Seljuks, exact type of hilt and crossguard.
Evan Morris
They were, they were actually heavily influenced by Polish, especially in their tactics but the equipment is other way around.
Blake Thompson
They basically wanted to get annexed by one of those 3 countries so
Benjamin Cruz
What a dick
Cooper Nguyen
>the only parallel would be Canada Savage
Robert Sanchez
STORM CLOUDS FIRE AND STEEL DEATH FROM ABOVE MAKE THEIR ENEMIES KNEEL
FIGHTING POWER AND GRACE DEATH FROM ABOVE ITS AN ARMY OF WINGS
Alexander Morales
Based Poles saved Europe from the turkroaches.
William Rodriguez
I think it was because the "Commonwealth" had a weak monarchy and was relatively more decentralized. They failed to effectively reform as it's neighbors kept kicking them while they were down and so they failed to modernize quickly enough.
Gabriel Cooper
serbian cavalrymen (nobility of serbia) also influenced ottoman history. you guys might as well check that
Cameron Kelly
>french man
David Richardson
Look at Poland now, they barred their borders and are watching the Germans fuck themselves over. Pottery
