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The muslim tatars who fought with the poles were descendants from refugees who fled from Tamerlane when he conquered the Middle East. They were granted asylum in Lithuania.
Battle of Hodowo (June 11, 1694) - the battle between the Polish and Tatar troops during the Polish-Turkish war (1683-1699). Win by the Polish side thanks to the hussars' charge, despite the power ratio of approximately 100: 1 (approx. 40 thousand Tatars against 400 Poles)
One of the places where they were granted land i know is in Kruszyniany and in Bohoniki in podlaskie voivodeship. They have nice mosque and are very friendly people.
Jestem z podlasia. Bardzo dobrze znam historie tatarów. Ci akurat nie byli przyjazni. U ich boków walczyli również tatarzy polscy którzy odmówili posłuszeństwu dla naszego króla.
We still have them in Poland
Indeed. I am from eastern side of Poland and they do live here. They are actually mostly of asian background. And as someone pointed out they are not a cause of trouble. Or rather they cause the amount of trouble everyone does. They were usually employed in form of light cavalry which was good at scouting and horse archery.
Its actually ironic really. Poland is quite catholic in comparison to other european countries and the eastern part of Poland is the most catjolic of all and yet there are muslims in the backyard and noone seems to care. A mystery truly.
Venimus, vidimus, Deus vicit, "We came, We saw, God conquered" Is the quote of Jan III (who was elected king of Poland in 1674) Who lead army to rescue Vienna. And said that in the letter to Pope after the battle
King Jan III Sobieski
He wrote that in letter to his wife
@@lUPIVULTUS to Pope for sure.
Good Ole Jan III Sobiesky really going for the title of Best Catholic at times.
Turkish Eye Witness : "They look like storm clouds, bristilling in armour and weapons, it was like a tide of black pitch rolling down the hill crushing and burning everything in its path."
Poland: Hey Turkey wanna hear a joke?
Turkey: Yeah?
Poland: Vienna
Turkey: I don't get it
Poland: That's when the winged hussars arrived
Turkey: *Ah not this again..*
Bwhaha yeah
Poland: Hey Turkey wanna hear a joke?
Turkey: Yeah?
Poland: Vienna
Turkey: I don't get it
Poland: AND YOU NEVER WILL!
I Feel like it's more Suitable.
Haha
Battle of Hodowo (June 11, 1694) - the battle between the Polish and Tatar troops during the Polish-Turkish war (1683-1699). Win by the Polish side thanks to the hussars' charge, despite the power ratio of approximately 100: 1 (approx. 40 thousand Tatars against 400 Poles)💪💪💪
I am from poland polska!!
We also need to remember the extreme respect that grew between Turks (or the Ottomans) and Poles, even though there were many many brutal and bloody wars fought between those two nations/empires. It grew so big that when Poland was (finally) partitioned between moscovites, prussia and austro-hungary, Turkey/Ottomans was probably the only nation that NEVER recognized this partition. It went so far that whenever an emissary from any of those 3 occupying nations arrived before the Sultan, a chamberlain (I think it is correct term) would step up upon annunciation and state "Polish emissary has not arrived yet!". It is something still remembered in Poland by many poles.
This is a fact. Turkey refused any diplomatic relations without Polish emmisaries. Also Syria helped Poles a lot with refugees even to the point of state paid Polish shools. There is a saying in Polish "you know who your friends are at the time of need". Rough translation but i hope U get a gist of it. We remember and there may come a time to help them. We will always, even after being erased from maps, be there for you. Your Phoenix friends. :)
At Oxford, Tolkien and a small group of scholars and friends formed a group that they called the “inklings”. They would read to each other parts of the works they were studying. The Inklings, over the years, had several Polish scholars join their gatherings. Tolkien had a long fascination with cavalry. It is no surprise that many of the passages of the LOTR closely parallel the works of Sienkiewicz as those would most certainly have been read to him by his Polish acquaintances. There is a passage in The Two Towers describing horses passing through the tall grasses of Rohan appearing as though swimming in a sea. That passage is a worthy transliteration of a section in Sienkiewicz’s “With fire and Sword”.
With all that said, Tolkien would have been well versed by his Polish colleagues on the Battle of Vienna and the charge of 20,000 Polish cavalry into the flanks of the Ottoman horde of 300,000.
Tolkien doesn't like this view of research. If you look like it. You can say Rohan are Turks because some names so similar like Eomer(Ömer) and Turks was so strong cavalry and womans even can fight in war like Eowyn. If you look then they are wearing light or medium armor like Old Turks cavalry.
@@-Tufix- Eowyn couldn't fight there, she had to hide under helmet.
@@-Tufix- except for cataphracts, all cavalry units wore light armor, that's not an ottoman speciality
edit: oh and btw, the name Éomer just translates to "horse-famous" from old english. and looking at rohans architecture, it's clearly a mixture of old nordic/saxon building styles.
literally nothing of the rohirrim has anything to do with the ottomans.
@@Seygem I can accept some of these information but I can't find Éomer translate from google. Probably it is LOTR language. I couldn't find Oxford research too. If you can find please send it to me. Yeah some of cavalry army wearing leather armor. But if you look Polish army when fighting with ottoman they are obviously wearing heavy armor(hussary). So I think @halynywiatr ,s information has'nt a base stone. We can talk about a lot of thing on this race for example rohan loving horse and using bow when riding horse. If you look before ottoman you will see Old Turkish Hans using same way to fight and living with horse. On the other hand While Tolkien was alive, he openly said that he did not like such races to be compared to societies (for example, the Haradrim resembled Indians) and that they were drawn to this side in his work. In other words, it would be absurd for us to discuss this topic while trying to explain that these events are all fiction, even though the Author of the subject we are talking about on the basis of the product does not accept (Lotr states that these works are far from the real world behind his books, so there is a space for people to escape and leave them alone). As a matter of fact, I wanted to point out in my previous comment that if you could pull this event this way, I could pull it this way too. I may not have been able to express myself because of my English. never mind. However, unless the author of a fictional work says so, I get angry when you write such things yourself and say there are researches and I can't find them on google.
@@-Tufix- To be honest, i have no idea how you missed this, considering these are among the very first hits on google:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89omer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohan_(Middle-earth)
Am I actually the first for once?
Ofc not, the winged hussars already arived.
not enough upvotes.
@@justicar5 Agreed. Underrated comment.
@@VloggingThroughHistory Mate, we only have so many thumbs we can give! :D
@@VloggingThroughHistory That uses clips from a 2 h long Italian Polish movie , The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683 , from 2012 .
F. Murray Abraham as its most famous actor in it , playing the role of Marco d'Aviano , an Italian Capuchin friar .
@Gamer jamie hi sus begula
Every time I listen to this song and see the winged hussars it gives me chills. there is nothing better than to be proud of my brave ancestors💪🇵🇱
I second that 🇵🇱 💪
I thid that......
the polish are the strongest, i visited for a weightlifting event and i love your country, the people are great.
Another polish person I see this is what I think💂🏻♀️💂🏻♀️💂🏻♀️💂🏻♀️💂🏻♀️💂🏻♀️💂🏻♀️💂🏻♀️💂🏻♀️💂🏻♀️💂🏻♀️💂🏻♀️💂🏻♀️💂🏻♀️💂🏻♀️💂🏻♀️💂🏻♀️💂🏻♀️💂🏻♀️💂🏻♀️💂🏻♀️💂🏻♀️💂🏻♀️💂🏻♀️💂🏻♀️🪖🪖🪖🤴🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪
When i hear the Winged Hussars,i Remember,In September,Then The Wing Hussars Arrive!
A cool thing about this song is the line "Death from above, it's an army of kings". By the time this battle took place, 1683, the make up of the Winged Hussars was all Polish Nobility, so literally an army of "kings" ie: rulers. I love that Sabaton got that little detail in the song.
Yes, you neeeded to be noble to afford a horse and armor. Actually at least 2 horses. Specially bred and trained, one would cost a small village. But hussars were no kings. Usually second, third sons. First born son would inherit the land and provide for the brothers that defended it.
@@Handrak : Selling a hussar horse outside Poland was punishable by death. The horses, that were actually quite small, but capable of extreme turns, were extremely expensive and their training was brutal and a well-guarded secret.
Pretty sure that's not the lyrics. "Army on wings."
@@lucascampos5498 its “an army of kings”
@@-_chira_- Indeed.
You are correct, Tolkien fully admitted the ride of the Rohirrim was inspired by the charge of the Winged Hussars to break the siege of Vienna.
No he never did say that Rohirrim inspired by Winged Hussars.
I recommend The Last Stand. It’s about the Swiss guard and the sacking of Rome.
I agree! Awesome song!🤘
Hey im from Rome
No, it's about the crusades
@@connorbosley4431 this is directly from Sabaton’s website.
@@DillanWill i know that, it's a meme
Fun fact: Supposedly mercenaries would sign on to fight for the enemies of Poland on the condition that they would never be sent into battle against the Winged Hussars. It was considered to be one of the best - if not the best - shock cavalry units in Europe back then. Greetings from Poland!
Don’t blame them they look like they a biblical army you shall see on judgement day chasing demons or something
Some believed the winged hussars were direct emissaries of god
I dont blame them for fearing them
@@painvillegaming4119 It's also fucking nuts when you realize that one
Cavalry is expensive, and they are often trained to hell and back
And two, the best cavalry is fielded by the richest, meaning the best cavalry is most likely just small fraction of what's about to come
@@anadaere6861 honestly money we’ll spend
@@painvillegaming4119 Yeah cavalry is stupid good for a alot of the daily shit they can do
you only need a few mounted knights to deal with a lot of untrained rebels, that said, they are high risk high reward units
A bad call and they are fucked
For the brief moment in 1683 the Winged Hussars became one of the only melee based forces in history I would consider a weapon of mass destruction.
And they were actually past their prime in 1683 as gunpowder weapons were getting more and more powerfull.
But still deadly.
Especially if you consider how many soldiers marched/rode from Poland to Vienna in that short of time and then totally turned the siege you just have to admire how great of a victory this was. One of the most under-rated moments in history! I wonder how Europe would have developed if Vienna had fallen. It would have been a major cultural shift.
I feel like, at least here in the US, so much of what we're taught of history is from a Western perspective. There is so much rich history in Eastern Europe that is lesser known but deserves to be known much better.
@@VloggingThroughHistory That's true but history hasn't been kind to Poland on either continent.
Our politicians are enforcing that cultural shift anyway sadly.
Poland had support of Tatars which are muslim minority on polish soil for couple hundred years. They stood along Polish/Commonwealth military multiple times, and continuie to be good neighbor to polish people up until today. Kinda small minority nowadays though.
Tatars fought on both sides of the battle. The Polish Tatars fought for Poland, the Crimean Tatars fought for their own country (which was allied with the Ottomans).
Tatars were always a small minority in Poland. But we also always had a disproportionately high impact on the Polish-Lithuanian military.
@@1985watanabe to prawda często odwiedzam wioskę tatarską w Polsce uwielbiam tatarskie jedzenie i opowieść o życiu Tatarów w świątyni muzułmańskiej. Taka ciekawostką Polska kawaleria Ułańska była stworzona na wzór kawalerii tatarskiej walczącej u boku Polaków dlatego nie miała chorągwi tylko tatarsku bończuk biało czerwono zielony czyli polskie barwy narodowe z kolorem zielonym proroka.
Great reactions, history knowledge and also a LOTR fan. Sh*t, I am so happy that I found this channel, keep doing what you do
Thanks Tommy! Glad to have you.
This is literally me right now as well
I like the joke that writers have to lower their numbers from what actually happened in history.
Because no one would be able to "suspend their disbelief" in fiction if the numbers were as high as what actually happened in history.
I dont know if you already did it but, 'Cliffs of Gallipoli' is a pretty good one aswell.
Last Battle, Hearts of Iron, Smoking Snakes, Ghost Division as well
If you check previous Sabaton videos, you will see me telling him to react that song. And I'm here again to tell that but you are here first.
Then the winged hussars arrived!
I just had to do it... :D
agreed, as a kiwi the ANZAC story is always a important story to tell
@@kieranjohnston8177 I play "Cliffs of Gallipoli" every ANZAC day along with "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" and a few others.
King Jan III of Poland was the one saying: "Venimus, Vidimus, Deus vicit"
Turkish Eye Witness : "They look like storm clouds, bristilling in armour and weapons, it was like a tide of black pitch rolling down the hill crushing and burning everything in its path."
Bo my płacy dzięki Bogu wierzymy w Boga
“We Came, We Saw, God Conquered”
King Jan Sobieski ||| of Poland
''We Came, We Saw, God rescued'' Stop Distorting.
7:55 "Przybyliśmy, zobaczyliśmy, zwyciężył Bóg!" - Jan III Sobieski
"We came, we saw, God conquered!"
"Venimus, vidimus, Deus vicit!"
Bóg zawsze po stronie silniejszych
@@jn1205 W tym przypadku Bóg był po stronie słabszych. Silniejsi byli Turcy - to była 300 tys. armia!
czyli w 39 po stronie Hitlera był? @@jn1205
@@jn1205 10 lat wcześniej pod Chocimiem z 30 tysiącami ludzi i 65 działami zaatakował 40-tysięczną armię ze 120 działami za umocnieniami polowymi i też ją pobił. Zresztą znawcy wojskowości to tę bitwę uważają za największe zwycięstwo Sobieskiego.
@@keriusz1 może z obsługą tzw ciury obozowe , kobiety i dzieci, chociaż i tak przesadzone liczby ... co rok w opowieściach przybywało 1000 ludzi. Siły były wyrównane 90 tys żołnierzy tureckich , 80 tys .austro- niemieckich i polskich. Zadecydowała technika i przytłaczająca liczba kawalerii niemiecko polskiej ok 25 tys ...Turcy mieli ok. 5 tys jazdy...
What I know is about Polish history. Brave pepole💪they win lots of crazy battles. Most of them they should lose... But is beautiful peace of history and they win 💪
Saying it again but "The Last Stand" Sack of Rome 1527 one of my favorite songs of theirs or "The Last Battle" Battle of Castle Itter 1945
It’s so great. I can listen to The Last Stand all day
The last Battle is just so underrated
@@sebastianarnold948 same!
@@p3chv0gel22 100% agreed
Hearts of Iron and Smoking Snakes!
On the way from Poland the Polish troops rode through an area where the Ottomans had massacred the villagers. Yeah the troops were angry. The quote was from Sobieski.
Not to mention that Poland in the years preceding this battle had fought its own series of wars against the Ottomans. Poland de facto lost the 1672-1676 war against the Ottomans, losing Podolia.
In short: Poland-Lithuania had many reasons to oppose the Ottomans, seeing some ravaged countryside in upper Hungary was probably the least of them.
@@1985watanabe revenge is a dish best served cold
I'm glad you mentioned Helms Deep. Everyone always points to the charge of the Rohirrim in Return of the King but the Battle of Helms deep is an almost blow for blow recreation of the Siege of Vienna. It's more accurate to say that the Rohirrim themselves were inspired by the Hussars while the battle of Helms Deep is inspired by the real life events of the siege.
Yes, Winged Hussars is one of Sabaton's best songs. Love it.
Thanks for sharing and go 10,000!
Turkish Eye Witness : "They look like storm clouds, bristilling in armour and weapons, it was like a tide of black pitch rolling down the hill crushing and burning everything in its path."
I'm of Polish ancestry, and this story has ever since I heard it made me proud to be a Pole.
You're just LOVIN' Sabaton since you watched the "No Bullets Fly" video huh? I completely understand.
Loved how you related to your wife's grandfather being in that bomb group - great personal touch.
Really enjoy your videos - keep going brother.
AND THE WINGED HUSSARS ARIVE
Ottomans : *[Confused Screaming]*
Turkish Eye Witness : "They look like storm clouds, bristilling in armour and weapons, it was like a tide of black pitch rolling down the hill crushing and burning everything in its path."
@_𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜_ lmao... 1 on 1 hussars kick ass. Nobody in history beat a 2 on 1...
In times of siege of vienna, Polish Winged Hussars were one from the greatest, strongest and well weaponized Military formation
listen to "40: 1" by sabaton. respect from Poland! glory to the heroes!
Ej xd mam taki sam avatar ale na telefonie mam takie etui
Na diskordzie i na steamie xd
Live version from Woodstock Poland 2012!
@@kilian8498 jak już chciałeś napisać komentarz to mogłeś się chociaż postarać wykrztusić trochę angielskiego
@@jgnatiususdragneel8491 xd ale pisałem to chłopa z polski byczq
I think 90% of sabaton songs are about history, they’re all very informative and metal lol it’s glorious
Sorry but 99% there fist song was shadows
not 90% but 99.9% of the songs. they have a few about metal and a few covers.
Greetings from Austria. I just recently found your channel and binge-watched all your Sabaton reaction videos and I really hoped that you do this song and suddenly I see it on you page. I really like this song, also because I'm from Austria and the two sieges of vienna are an important part of our history. Keep on doing this great videos!
I hope to visit your beautiful country someday!
Same here, great videos
@@VloggingThroughHistory thank you
That moment when you realize a real life cavalry charge was 3 times larger than the largest cavalry charge shown in a movie.
Horses are expensive...War horses cost even more.
in Hungarian, it's Húszár, pronounced hoo-sar, and I'm pretty sure it's based off of the polish-lithuanian pronunciation, so it should be pronounced like that in English, too
In Polish there has been kind of split in pronunciacion - winged hussars kept original somewhat soft "s" (so is husaria, husarze, husarzy), while hussars known as napoleonic light cavalry are spelled with strong "z" (huzarzy, huzarów).
But the root is the same, straight from Hungarian :)
@@Krzysztof.l.Polak.84 interesting, thanks for telling me
When it comes to the hussars, Hungary had a great influence. The Hussars was founded by the Polish King Stefan (Istvan) Batory who was Hungarian, the first units of Hussars consisted of Serbian mercenaries.
Hussar is of hungarian origin :)
Largest cavalry charge in history , Mongols have nothing on Pols our Slavic brothers, respect from Serbia
Cheers from Polska my comrade! 🤙😎🤙🇵🇱🇵🇱
I seriously doubt that the mongols with the massive armies mostly cavalry didn't charge with more than 18000 men at some point. Not discrediting this charge but the records during the mongol era was not as good as it was in 17th century Europe.
whaattt :D you should be crazy to saying this Mongol, Hun and Göktürk armies were the best land armies in the world
@@eddiewinehosen6665 I don't think their economy was strong enough to support 18k horses back then
@@RmRoyalflush if you have the ability to read, then do that
i didnt even watch 1 second of it and i can already tell its gonna be epic
*THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED*
The Holy League's Infantry had actually engaged the Ottoman army and were in the process of pushing them back, the massive cavalry charge down the Kahlenburg was the final nail in the coffin. A significant portion of the Ottoman army consisted of Hungarian protestant levies. At the time, the Austrian-dominated Holy Roman Empire was very strongly persecuting Protestants, so Protestant Hungary (at the time) sided with the Ottomans (who had repeatedly provided military assistance) against their greater foe. In spite of Poland's contributions at this battle, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth would be partitioned between Prussia, Russia and Austria less than a century later.
i wish Sabaton had shown a bit more of hte surroundings, rather than just focusing on the 3,000 winged Hussars...
The polish-Lithuanian commonwealth had endless issues.
This would be the last major action the Poland -Lithuanian Commonwealth every did. Sadly after this amazing charge the Commonwealth weakened and declined.
Wait, here in Hungary we are teached that we gloriously fought the Ottomans till death and we didn’t give up eve; when only northern Hungary remained
Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth was kille off by their own nobility, wich was egotistical idiots 100% of the time. Jan should have purged them and restored hereditary monarchy. Poland-Lithuania would probalby still be around if he had.
The geek/nerd in me loves that you're going with the historical take on this. It's part of why I love Sabaton so much is because it gets me to research stuff
What's really interesting, is that the wings of the Hussars were thought to be a frightening sight not only for the Ottomans, but also to their horses.
I used to have trouble waking up in the morning. Now i set my alarm to Winged Hussars and wake up all the time
Not sure if just kidding but Im waking up for the last 10+ years to rocky theme. And it started coz I was sleeping at job and set this alarm to jump up and run up the stairs. Still lovin it and only downside is on odd occasion when i hear rocky theme my adrenaline jumps up and im super alert. My point is find some ridiculous po culture melody with some poaitive connections and u wont hate it after few weeks and will always wake u up.
That charge must have seemed like the world was ending. Thousands of horses all running in the same direction would have shook the battle field! Part of me wishes I could have seen it.
Not necessarily, as it was not the tactic of hussars to show off their numbers. They charged in extremely close formations in lines with large rifts between them to avoid enemy fire and only formed an actual unit right before hitting the enemy lines. They spread as wide as possible right before smashing into the enemy line and that must have looked mighty scary. The tactic was to fan out and pepper the enemy pikemen with pistol fire (each hussar carried one, usually two pistols under their saddles) and then smash into them with extremely long pikes, that were attached to the saddles at the other end putting the entire mass of the horse behind the stab. Nasty business. One of the hussars wrote in his memoirs, that he carried five Swedes on his pike before it broke off.
It's pronounced hoosars
I'm polish trust me
Now it just sounds like a bunch of Hoosiers not Winged Hussars
Many countries have or have had regiments of Hussars, and pronunciation is dependent on the native language. I'm English, so I use the English pronunciation, as I would expect of any English speaker. The important thing is to convey the correct meaning, so the pronunciation of the language used should be preferred over that used by the country or language of origin. I'm afraid that is a large part of what translation involves, old chap. English words are not just mispronounced but misspelt when translated into USian - the only real problem is that they still call it English.
Definitely not something to get your panties in a bunch over.
Long live Poland bro
@@phillee2814 Also the word isn't even Polish in origin but likely either Serbian or Hungarian and it has likely changed pronunciation a lot over the hundreds of years of the words existence.
It is pronounced the same way you would say "You thieving, womanizing, bastard get your hands of my wife, daughter and booze and get of my property." I'm a a former hussar trust me, but not with anything lootable.
First, this is my FAVORITE song by SABATON!!! Sabaton makes you feel patriotic for other people's countries!
I delved into the history of this battle after I heard this song, and I learned something extremely interesting: the wings on the Hussars served a purpose besides great looks. Apparently, the feathers would ruffle and flutter as the horsemen road faster, creating a "hummmm" as they charged. The ominous hum was their sound of doom, and along with the thunder of hoofs, would be terrifying for any line of men attempting to break a charge of heavy cavalry!!
Mylisz się ten nieprzyjemny hałas proporce na czubkach 6 m lanc.
My great-grandfather (more times "great-";)) fought in the Battle of Vienna. It was one of the biggest battles. Strategically, it was a very well played battle. Poland saved Europe from Islamization.
Thats interesting, quick question: Which side? The Polish, Hungarian or Turk?
@@erichvondonitz5325 Poland - hussars.
@@magdalenalucia1683 Nice, bless your ancestor
According to texts and materials in the polish museum of polish military, those wings were only used either on parades or when hussars where escorting a VIP somewhere for a special occasion. Still always makes me happy to see part of my country's history appreciated in modern culture!
This is not your first time showing this group, and I always said I dont enjoy this type of music, but the combination of the history and the amazing music and singing, has made me totally love these guys.
This was the first Sabaton song I ever heard, and I was hooked forever.
John III Sobieski „Venimus, vidimus, Deus vicit”
From what I remember he send that as a message to the pope after the battle was won right?
@@damianworek4444 yup
A real hero who should be remembered. Sadly in the U.K. not many people know of this great man.
"venimus, vidimus, Deus vicit" Jan III Sobieski, after this battle
In 1683, Jan III of Poland said "Venimus Vidimus, Deus vicit," or "We came, we saw, and God conquered" reminding his triumphant soldiers after the Battle of Vienna that there is "No I in TEAM" and that "Man proposes, God disposes" in one witty quip.
It was the very king who led the charge!
I would have loved to have someone like you as my history teacher! Keep up the good work
the "Storm clouds, fire and steel
Death from above make their enemy kneel" part is my favorite its so cool
Best cavalry ever...
Long live Poland!!!!
Great video man! Keep it up👍
"Venimus, Vedimus Deus Vicit" Jan the III Sobiesky - those words He wrote to Pope to inform him that the Vienna was saved
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there arent many thing i remember about the hussars, but i believe they not only had this outragously expensive armour,.. horses (obviously) and their lances were incredible long,..so cost on top of costs on top of costs.. they were extremely expensive to maintain and in the time after vienna they had a last peek and than went the way of the samurai,.. giving a farmer a rifle is just cheaper than maintaining a standing army of so expensive soldiers
Well, factors for their decline were many, being very expensive troops to upkeep was one of those.
But main reasons were growing political chaos in the country, collapse of economy and outdated organization of the military force as such.
In fact, husaria (winged hussars, but without wings and armour) was officially kept `till 1772 (may be a bit wrong) and than evolved into so called National Cavalry - formation with more socio-political background than military.
In better conditions I suppose, that winged hussars would evolve in something resembling western cuirassiers of middle XVIII century, heavy break-through cavalry.
I wish the movie used in the background here actually depicted how the winged hussars fought. they would plow through formations despite spears pointed directly at them
Just found you, I love Sabaton music and history and it's great to have some more details when listening to them!
You should try to imagine the king Sobieski himself. He was at the head of the charge, not at the back giving orders. He was an old and fat guy on a horse at the front line slicing these turks with his sabre. What a sight!
Well Tolkien took inspiration for the charge of the Rohan from this battle. He was well versed in all the classics.
Keep going man your doing great
I just found this channel today and watched the reaction videos and because of that you earned my subscription, I really enjoy watching it.
Thanks Mercy! Glad to have you.
Awesome! Just subscribed! Keep up the good work!
10,000 subscribers in January, 150,000 in June. Congratulations, man.
This is also my favorite Sabaton song.
Love coming back to these "old" videos of his and seeing how fast his channel has grown in a short time
When i hear winged hussars i put my armor on
THANK YOU! Waited for it and love this song so much! Visited the "HGM" museum in Vienna in 2017,where they have an awesome display of this battle and much loot from the Turks ;)
...and one of the stories from the battle is that, when the foot soldiers from both side, saw the charge of polish cavalery they,ve stoped fighting for some time to watch the beauty of the charge.
My birthday is on the day the winged Hussars arrived
@vloging through history, it has to be mentioned that winged hussars actually were also heavy cavalry. they were heavily armored and each rider usually was a mountes weapon aresnal. from pistoly to spears/javelins and sabres. and the feathers in their "wings" gave the a kind of heavy wind blowing sound when they were charging. im not sure if one can draw an analogy to stukas there but it supposedly had a similar effect.
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Awesome!
One of my favourite sabaton songs, the part where they start singing '' Storm Clouds, Fire and Steel '' just gives me chills down my spine.
They saved the very asses of their destructors. They bled only to be betrayed by Habsburgs. Such irony. Respect Poland from Turkey.!
If I remember right the Poles placed their artillery on the mountain where the cavalry came down. The Muslim army did not think anyone would be coming from the mountain
Yes I have read that before. I believe Polish have much to be proud of. I am American and have good Polish American friends. Many Polish Americans fought hard and dangerous battles for the USA, many gave their lives for my country. We are lucky to have them. Poland is a brave country. History made them born with a sword in one hand and a hammer in the other,(for rebuilding their cities, I think) Poland has had some nasty neighbors! Long live Poland!
Screaming eagles and panzerkampf is also cool
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Back in high school on my AP European history exam I included the charge of the Winged Hussars in it as an example of something, and the only reason I remembered the year was because I sung the song in my head up to the part where it mentioned the year
Polska była potęgą i będzie bo my wierzymy w boga
If I remember correctly:
When they say the phrase 'Death from above' is also a reference to their wings and how they looked liked Angels sent by god. Also 'Army of Kings' I think is the reference to the fact that most of the hussars were nobles (led by the king) who were one of the most wealthiest at the time in Poland-Lithuania.
I am Polish so I know a bit about this but do not remember all the details.
Actually hussars were only nobles, but besides that ur right.
Tak jak chłop pisał, husaria składała się wyłącznie z szlachty i to raczej nie z gołoty.
@@sabotuerelthendo2578 To be precise, winged hussars were formed of nobles, and usually, since those nobles were rich they could afford to arm one or two of his close guards to join hussars as well. So, the winged hussars weren't only nobles, but as well "bodyguards" of those nobles, sometimes nobles themselves, but sometimes not.
Death from above also because they were attacking down from the Kallenberg mountain.
The Polish had multiple types of nobles, so about 1 of 10 Polish males were technically members of the nobility at that time.
The Hussars were one of the most (if not the most) formidable heavy cavalry units of that era. One of the best examples certifying this statement is the battle of Kłuszyn, a part of the Polish-Russian war of 1609-1618. 5600 hussars (plus approx. 1000 auxillaries) defeated the 35 thousand strong Russian and Swedish army.
As an old military historian these guys are wearing the best looking armor ever! They were in existence 200 years.
When a nobile wanted to become a hussar he needed to provide three "armored companions" with him. Pay for three armors and horses if it's needed, and servants of course. It was really expensive duty.
And there was a designated officer at the back that would shoot deserters. There wasnt many, in most cases u had to be rich and it was great honor but if in front of enemy u had second thoughts, welp bad luck i guess.
I love how Joakim pronounces "bury" to rhyme with "fury". It confused me when I first started hearing it (it's in this song and also in "'Wolfpack"), but I guess it makes sense when you see it written down.
Pretty sure it's just his accent
Once you hear it you will never unhear it 401
@@bismarckandthekriegsmarine9711 You're right! It's in 40:1 too, "Buried in history"!
Also panzer battalion
@@bismarckandthekriegsmarine9711 Ha! You've studied this more than me then, obviously! LOL
I recommend you to watch two polish films based on great trylogy of books - "With fire and sword" from 1999 and "The Deluge" from 1974. Story takes place around mid XVII century in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the films have great battle scenes, some with winged hussars.
And a great cast. Too bad to watch a good film I have to watch it with English subtitles since only trash comes out of Hollywood now.
As a Serb its really a powerful thing sharing this magnificent part of medieval European history with Poles. With Ottomans at their peak, the sheer number of Serbian hussar cavalry fighting as mercenaries in central Europe. Although winged hussars depicted here are mainly the work of Balts and crazy Poles xD
If you haven't already done it could you do The Last Stand next?
Amazing! 🔥🤘
You gotta admit it, a force of 18,000 up against a force of 150,000, they were some brave cavalrymen.
Edit: Thanks to undertakernumberone1
The actual relief force was 47,000 Germans and Austrians and 27,000 Poles. So around 74,000 men in total.
They did not... for fucks sake, they did not...
to quote from wikipedia:
Viennese garrison:
11,000 soldiers[9] + 5,000 volunteers[9]
312 guns but only 141 operational[9]
(strength on 10 September 1683)
Relief force:
47,000 Germans and Austrians with some 112 guns[10]
27,000 Poles with 28 guns[11]
it wasn't just 18,000... the cav charge was 3,000 Winged Hussars, + other polish AND GERMAN Cavalry. When the cav charge committed, the Ottoman infantry had already been battered by Imperial, Bavarian etc. and Polish Infantry.
@@undertakernumberone1 Jeez, alright mate I was going by what I'd heard from the video. But good to know the actual numbers, thanks.
@@azarth8805 yeah, which is where the reaction came from, because a lot of people only listen to "AND THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!" and don't bother reading up on it.
Wasn't personal, just frustration from people not bothering to even take a short look at Wikipedia but then going "The Winged Hussars won that battle alone!"
@@undertakernumberone1 It's all good dude, I do the same sometimes.
@@undertakernumberone1 Still outnumbered.
It's worth mentioning that winged hussars were part time oldschool heavy cavalry, with long lances and so on, and apart from cavalry sabers they also used an intersting type of sword called koncerz in polish. It was similar to very big a cavalry rapier, very long (1,6m, or 63 inch thrusting sword).
wow couple months later its almost 100 k !! nice job man and good luck :)
I've actually watched this movie twice and so I actually looked up the Polish military and for several hundred years they were the shock and all cavalry at the time they would have up to 10,000 people go up against anywhere between 20 30 and 40,000 troops and they would win battles with very few casualties on their side. Eventually they were phased out but they had a very fearsome reputation. I learned that each Calvary had to buy their own armament and what they would each wear and what weaponry that they would have pretty cool once you look everything up.
I remember my college professor telling me about a written account of one Winged Hussar impaling 6 (goddamn SIX) enemy soldiers on his long lance.
Yeah, i belive it was Jan Chryzostom Paszek, could spell it wron a bit. Sometimes he was going over the top with his stories. Battle of Polonka, with moscoviets, this is where he written it. Six is kind of too much, according to historians, but 2 or 3 was a common viev, when fithing with enemies with thin armor or without. And then get back for another lance, regroup and strike, then for another lance...untill there was no horses left :) take care
@@mariuszedward3469 I knew I Got some things wrong. I often forget names, and dates, but I remember details. And to think I'm getting my Masters Degree in military history this year hah (also, I'm polish, just replying in English for Clarity's sake)
@@SzczepanZZ good luck with degree, and read more about hussars, it's just military masterpiece. I've menaged to finish podstawowka :) take care, and horse health for You !!
I only recently found this channel and sabaton but I love both of them.
I stumbled on this vid during my semi-monthly Winged Hussars appreciation day, and I'd just like to congratulate on 200k subs in late September when you were only aiming for 10k back in January.
there is a story that soldiers in the battlefield stopped fighting to see the hussars charge
As a Pole, I understand why we can save others…, why not ourselves though?
You did up untill Russians and Habsburgs had the bigger guns. After that, even Ottomans couldnt stop them from tearing Poland apart. Tho they protested in every opportunity they got. Like every time when they had great meetings with ambassadors and sultan asked "where's the Polish ambassador" loudy enough to Russians to hear. Apparently Poland didint forget this. That's why Polish prime minister said "after a long wait, Polish ambassador is finally here" when he visited Turkey after a long while back in 2001 or 2002 i think.
You want a discussion on the reasons behind the partitions?
1. Political corruption by our neighbors.
2. Underpaid army, underpaid officials... which just made them easier target for corruption.
3. Poland "died of civic rights". Low taxes, high freedom for the voting citizens, a functional parliament... makes for a nice country to live in, but a disadvantage when facing these highly centralized, highly taxed absolutist behemoths like Russia and Austria. Low taxes meant a small army and underpaid officials.. see point 1 and 2.
4. Diplomacy. Austria, Prussia and Russia managed to act in concert, while we failed to brake that unholy alliance up. We also failed to gain noteworthy allies.
5. It was a "bad place on the map" to be at. Spain or Turkey was going though a much worse crisis then we were at the time, but they simply didn't have such ruthlessly efficient neighbors to take advantage of them.
6. Poor past political decisions. We have not supported the enemies of Russia (like the Crimean Khanate or the Ottomans) when they were fighting against Russia. Then when push came to shove, we had to face Catherine the Great alone, there was nobody else left in the east to help us.
I love this Song !
Greetings from Vienna 😁
I'd love to see you do more on Poland including the Warsaw uprising. I understand that the wings created an eerie sound that struck fear into the enemy.
In my opinion, wing was not used in battles, or when they where, it was rare. Kind of not the hussars style, not to big help in battle now is it? Could obstruct movement of a rider on horse, could slow them down to lean backwards on horse to dodge a blow, not practical at all. And the noise...myth and legend, that it was created by wings. It was them flags on lances, that where 1.5 meter long. As a stationary rider with lance up, it was hangin from top to horse head. Hussars where a killing machines, polish spartans. I will say, that even horses where like spartans. The horses that was fighting, where in 7-14y old, since small they where trained in art of war, same as riders. Breed to mix was some kind of eastern horse, belive it was named "tarpan" that was not afraid of gunshots( he was just stopping, not getting panicked), and a western heavy horse. The result-fast, agile, but strong and tall well trained medieval tank, who was going about 40km/h with nearly 100kg on itself. They could pass some stupid 200km, then straight away to top performance in battle. Madness. For selling horse outside of commonwealth was fines, repossesion of land, "tower"- todays jail, or-if you sold to muslims DEATH. Another thing is tactics in battle, too much to write, if You like Hussars go for it, and search, You will not regret. Take care.
Tolkien loved the charge of the Hussars so much he created an entire race of man (Rohirrim) SPECIFICALLY so that they could REPEATEDLY do a "Winged Hussar Charge" type thing.
I mean don't get me wrong, Rohan's my favourite (well them and Elendil but w/e), but damn Tolkien, calm down.
100k subs in just 3 months from asking about just 10k. Well done VTH great content :)
i love this channel keep it up
Saudações do Brasil, sou professor de História e uso essa música também nas minhas aulas.