What was the most clichéd moment in history?
The Siege of Vienna.
The time was 1683 advertisement, and for the formerly 300 times, the Christian Holy Roman Empire and the Muslim Ottoman Empire had been locked in deadly struggle.
But now the end of that struggle was at hand.
Kara Mustafa Pasha, one of the Sultan’s most stressed-out commanders, was to bring that end. In the summer of 1683, he led 140,000 men against the last bastion of Christendom, capital of the house of Hapsburg, the final bulwark between the Muslim crowds and Europe Vienna.
On 14 July, the Benches laid siege to the municipality. dikes were erected, food supplies were cut off, and 130 cannon started pounding the municipality. With only 15,000 defenders, the jewel of the Holy Roman Empire sounded doomed. By September, large portions of the municipality walls were formerly in remains, and the remaining defenders readied themselves to fight to the last man.
But the battle was not over yet.
For another army was approaching the beleaguered municipality. But no Ottoman crescent could fly from his flags. For this army’s banners flew the red- and-white stripes of the Polish Commonwealth the black eagle of the Holy Roman Empire and the cross of Christianity. Over 80,000 German and Polish colors, under the command of the Polish king, John III Sobieski, was marching to the municipality’s aid.
The relief force arrived on the 11th of September, and battle was joined on the 12th. The German and Polish army engaged the Benches, and while they were making good advance, Ottoman colors had entered Vienna. However, also all was lost, If the municipality fell.
And also came the cavalry.
At 6 pm on the evening of the 12th, 18,000 horsemen lined up on the hill facing the Ottoman army. King Sobieski himself was at their head with over 3,000 of the Polish Winged Hussars the finest cavalry in Europe. Over a 100,000 Benches lay at the bottom of the hill staying for them.
As the confederated army cheered, and the Benches quailed at the sight of these armored mammoths, the Hussars said their prayers to the Almighty, readied their pikestaffs, and charged.
In what was one of the largest cavalry charges in history, the Hussars completely shattered the Ottoman lines. As they carved through the crowd’s species like a hot knife through adulation, the defenders of Vienna let out a cheer and mugged out from the municipality, taking the Benches in the reverse. With the Hussars at their front, and the vengeful Austrians ahead, the Benches broke in complaint, fleeing the field and leaving the battlefield to the abettors.
The Benches retreated to their own lands, and the victorious abettors recaptured ultimate of the European lands lost to the foe. The Benches Norway again would hang Europe.
Vienna, Europe, and indeed Christendom itself was saved.
So, the last bastion of a dying empire is besieged by the crowds of an alien foe, with the future of its people hanging in the balance. Just when all seems lost, abettors appear out of the blue, and with a ruinous cavalry charge, save the day and end the adversary trouble ever.
