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The Charge That Saved Europe: The Winged Hussars and the Relief of Vienna, 1683
Paperback
Austrian & Hungarian HistoryMilitary Strategy
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 14 2026
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.25 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
On the afternoon of September 12, 1683, the fate of Europe hung on a single cavalry charge. As Ottoman sappers tunneled toward the walls of Vienna, 20,000 Polish Winged Hussars thundered down the Kahlenberg slopes-the largest cavalry assault in history, shattering a two-month siege and turning the tide of a 300-year war.
This edition breaks down that pivotal moment with 4 original tactical diagrams and maps showing the siege lines, the Ottoman deployment, the allied march through the Vienna Woods, and the phase-by-phase mechanics of the hussar charge. Order-of-battle tables detail every regiment and commander. Anecdotes are sourced directly to ancient and primary historians-from the Polish diarist Jan Chryzostom Pasek to the Ottoman chronicler Silahdar Findiklili Mehmed Aga-by name.
For readers of narrative military history who want the story and the strategy.
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