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The Siege of Vienna, 1683

The Turks dreamed of establishing a western Muslim Empire in the heart of Europe. But their army of nearly 300,000 men failed to pierce the elaborate fortifications that protected the old city walls from cannon fire and underground mines (The Mansell Collection)
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Dinesh said:

After wrestling territory from Poland, fighting a long inconclusive war with Russia, and establishing an alliance with Louis XIV of France, the Turks turned again on Austria. A huge Turkish army surrounded Vienna and laid siege to it in 1683. But after holding out against great odds for two months, the city was relieved by a mixed force of Habsburg, Saxon, Bavarian, and Polish troops, and the Ottoman were forced to retreat. Soon the retreat became a route. As their Russian and Venetian allied attacked on other fronts, the Habsburgs conquered all of Hungary and Transylvania (part of present day Rumania) by 1699
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