![]() The relief army were racing against time to save the city and created an effective leadership structured around the Polish King and the Winged Hussars. On September 6 th the Polish under King John III Sobieski crossed the Danube northwest of Vienna at Tulin to join the Imperial troops of the Holy Roman Empire along with soldiers from Saxony, Bavaria, Badan, F ranconia and Swabia, giving the Polish King 70,000 men under his command. This greatly helped in creating enough time for a relief force to arrive in September. However the defenders knocked down large trees to help bolster the old palisade delaying the Ottoman attack. In order to take the city the Ottomans mined tunnels under the city walls to blow them up using large amounts of Black Powder. Kara Mustafa Pasha who led the Ottoman force ordered his men to dig trenches towards to the city to help protect his troops from the defenders cannons as they advanced. On the 14 th July 1683 the Ottoman army of 150,000 men laid siege to Vienna. In this treaty it promised that the Holy Roman Empire would support Poland if the Ottomans attacked Krakow and in return the Polish would come if Vienna was attacked. The Holy Roman Empire made an alliance with the Polish in 1683 called the Treaty of Warsaw. The Ottomans repaired and established roads and bridges leading to the Holy Roman Empire as well as moving cannons and ammunition into the Balkans. ![]() The Ottoman Empire wanted to take the City of Vienna for its control over the Black Sea to Western Europe, Southern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean to Germany’s trade routes. This battle is largely marked as the end of the Ottoman invasions into Europe. The regression of the formation occurred with the crisis of the Polish state in the 18th century, when it began to play the role of a representative army rather than a real combat force.The battle of Vienna is one of the most significant battles in European History, it took place in September 1683 between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Holy Roman Empire and Habsburg Hungry against the Ottoman Empire. It is thanks to them that hussars were considered one of the best in the 17th century - if not the best! - cavalry units in Europe. ![]() It is enough to mention such great victories as at Kircholm (1605), Kluszyn (1610) or at Chocim (1621 and later in 1673). Thanks to very high combat value, great steeds, good tactics and talented commanders, the hussars were able to win general battles even despite the significant advantage of the enemy. The outstanding quality of the hussars is evidenced by the fact that she was able to perform several of these charges in the course of one battle. In the course of the battle, the hussars assumed a tight formation (the so-called knee to knee) and charged the enemy in such a formation. What's more, the hussar units were very well trained and often commanded by eminent leaders like Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Stanisław Żółkiewski and Jan Sobieski. For the needs of the hussars, horses were specially bred and selected that were resistant to the hardships of the march, but could also be great at galloping. In the 17th century, the hussar was armed with a long and hollow lance, a saber, koncerze and two pistols. ![]() However, at the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century, the hussars already played the role of heavy cavalry. It is certain that the hussar units took part in the Battle of Orsza, which was victorious for the Polish side in 1514. Initially, it played the role of light cavalry, probably modeled on similar units serving in Hungary or Serbia. Hussars is a Polish cavalry military formation that was first formed at the beginning of the 16th century, perhaps in 1503, and was disbanded in 1775-1776. ![]()
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