#BATTLE OF VIENNA 1683 LICENSE#
He was one of the rallying orators of this time for the Catholic forces.īy 1664, he was given a license to preach in Venice, and was elected as superior in 1672 of the convent in Belluno and of the convent of Orderzo in 1674. Prior to this 1683 battle, in 1648, one of the individuals important to this battle, Mark of Vaiano entered the novitiate of the Capuchins. He was accompanied by Christendom-wide rosary prayers.įour calvary groups, one Austrian-German, and three Polish, charged and broke through the Ottoman troops. King Jan or King John III Sobieski of Poland led the battle against Muslim Ottoman Turks.
The Polish relief army had come and early September 12, a High Mass was held. On September 12, 70,000 men arrived and reinforced the battle against the Ottoman army. The Austrians discovered it just in time and one man defused it just in time. The Turks had just finished another gunpowder mine and sealed the tunnel. So the Turks, instead of using their gunpowder for cannons, dug tunnels under the city walls and used gunpowder to break down the walls of Vienna. The fortifications of Vienna had been strengthened. “We order You to await Us in Your residence city of Vienna so that We can decapitate you… (…) We will exterminate You and all Your followers… (…) Children and adults will be equally exposed to the most atrocious tortures before being finished off in the most ignominious way imaginable…” This was a declaration from Muslim Sultan Mehmet IV to the then Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I: The Ottomans outnumbered the defenders almost 20 – 1. The Ottoman army of 138,000 men began to attack Venice. However, the beginning of the siege was July 14, 1683. The actual battle took place September 11 and September 12, 1683. Prior to the Battle of Vienna, the city had been besieged for two months by the Turks. They had been promised “the Kingdom of Vienna” if it fell to the Ottomans. In 1681, various anti-Habsburg forces and Protestants were reinforced by support from the Muslims. This is why they were providing military assistance to anti-Catholic minorities. The strategy of the Ottomans had been to capture Vienna. While the battle at Lepanto had been a naval battle, this Battle of Vienna was a land invasion. On October 7, 1571, as part of this ongoing conflict, a Turkish fleet was sent to conquer Christendom. It provided assistance to non-Catholic minorities. It repaired roads and bridges and forwarded ammunition and resources. After this 1529 siege, the Ottoman empire began building for the future. More immediate to the the Battle of Vienna, on September, 1529, Ottoman Turks defeat the Hungarians at the Battle of Mohacs. The backdrop of the Battle of Vienna had been 300 years of back-and-forth conflicts from Muslims roaming Austria and Hungary. Simultaneously, the Muslim Ottoman Turks were threatening Christendom. The Battle of Vienna occurred at a time in history when the Protestant Reformation had removed support from the Catholic Church.
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