In 1683, a massive cavalry charge saved Vienna and halted the Ottoman expansion
When the Ottoman Empire brought Vienna to the brink of collapse in 1683, the largest cavalry charge in history arrived just in time to change the course of European civilization forever.
By September 1683, the city of Vienna was starving and exhausted after a two-month siege by the Ottoman Empire. Just as the city walls were about to crumble, King Jan III Sobieski of Poland arrived with a massive relief force. He led the 'Winged Hussars' in a thunderous charge of 18,000 horsemen, the largest in documented history, to shatter the Ottoman lines.
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