"We saw it… the hussars let loose their horses.God ,what power! Thay run through the smoke and the sound was like that o a thousand blacksmiths beating with a thousand hammers. We saw it... Jesus Maria! The elite's lances bent forward like stalks of rye, driven by a great storm, bent on glory! The fire of the guns before them glitters! They rush on to the Swedes! They crash into the Swedish riters…. Overwhelm them! They crash into the second regiment - Overwhelmed! Resistance collapses, dissolves, they move forward as easily as if they were parading on a grand boulevard. They sliced without effort through the whole army already. Next target: the regiment of horse guards, where stands the Swede King Carol. And the guard already wavers!" Description from Potop "Deluge" by Henryk Sienkiewicz
I recommend a look at the battle of Kircholm (1605). It shows the power of husaria (Polish "winged" hussars). Polish army (or rather Polish - Lithuanian Commonwelth army): about 3500 men; Swedish army: around 11 000 men. Polish casaulties: 100 men (about 200 wounded), 150 horses, BUT: only 13 men from husaria. Swedish casaulties: at least 6 000 men, but some sources say that even up to 9000. Guess who won :)?
After that 100 years later they say Poland "thank you". Austrian, Germany and Russia attacked Poland. Poland dissapeard from europen map for 123 years.
Austrian here! Today the western outskirts of Vienna are pressed against the start of the Alps. In the late 17th century there were a few km between the first mountains and the city walls. It is not completly flat but rather a gentle decent toward the Danube and Wien rivers. There is even a park marking the location of the main Ottoman camp, called "Türkenschanzpark". It translates to "Park of the turkish defenses". The counter- mines of the defenders were meant to collaps and blow up the mines of the Ottomans. For clarification: mines are the tunnels that both sides dug (as in goldmine not landmine). The purpose of them was to fill the end of the tunnel (or mine) with expolsives and blow it up, thereby collapsing the structure above it. This however also collapsed the mine, making a second detonation of the same mine impossible. As to the large chin or lip of the Habsburgs: that was a result of incestous marriges to keep the bloodline pure. It is know as the Habsburg Lip
I dont think it had anything to do with "bloodline purity". It was simply a power-politics and alliance game. When all the powerful people are your relatives and alliances are often signed by marriage, you end up with a family tree that looks more circular than you would like...
All armies, whether they were professional, conscripted or mercenary forces generally got paid through looting captured towns and cities. There wasn’t much in the way of regular pay for most soldiers.
In the 17th century, the Winged Hussars were the most feared soldiers in Europe. Heavy cavalry in full armor, with a long lance, a saber and a pistol (useful for shooting opposing matchlock gunmen).
Interesting that it should remind you of helms deep as the siege of Vienna and the charge of the Winged Hussars is the exact inspiration for the battle of helms deep
It is a mix of that and siege of szigetvár where Nikola Šubić Zrinski held the castle with the a hugely outnumbered garrison against Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. Sultan died at that siege and the Ottomans took heavy casualties despite outnumbering the defenders a hundred times. When the Turks were about to break through the last gates, the last defenders led by Zrinski charged through the gate and across a small bridge and fought till the last man to meet the Ottomans head on in display of heroism. That is identical to Helms Deep except the fact that no help arrived that day. So Tolkien combined those two because they were the most important strategic victories against the Ottoman assault.
13:05 Yes it is. The whole terrain of the battle is nowadays part of the huge city. But once you descend from the hills in the east, the terrain is flat and rolls seamlessly into the Hungarian plain.
If one mining tunnel encountered another, the miners fought each other with what they had to hand. A mining pick through the skull will kill an enemy just as well as a sword. Of course the ideal was to get your tunnel into position just below or just above the enemy tunnel. If you were below you could start a fire and eliminate the wooden mining supports, which would collapse your tunnel and usually the other one as well. If you were above, you could break through your floor and drop all sorts of nasty things into the tunnel below - on at least one occasion that nasty thing was a bear. Can you imagine being the miners in those tunnels, digging away towards the enemy walls to plant a mine beneath them, never quite sure that today wouldn't be the day when the floor collapsed beneath you and dropped you into a fire, or the day when you'd be fighting another virtually naked man in a narrow tunnel lit only by an oil lamp and both armed with picks and shovel, or maybe about to get a wasps nest dropped on your head, or hot oil poured on you, or maybe the next thing your pick hits will be a bear? It's no wonder they - and the sappers who dug the trenches closer and closer to the enemy walls - received higher pay than the ordinary soldier.
It caused a mighty noise which seemed like a formidable enemy bearing down on them. It wasn’t the horses that got scared but the foot soldiers and the opposing cavalry. The Polish cavalry was the finest example of horsemanship and bravery at that time. King Jan Sobieski was an outstanding leader. Kara Mustafa vowed to take the GOLDEN APPLE (Vienna) and then the rest of The Christian West to turn it into a Muslim world. After the defeat, the OTTOMAN empire no longer tried to go against the western world.
@@ceskyvlk8469 yes,he was a brave leader but his defeat meant he had to die to save his honor, but then you know the history better than I know it!!!!!!
imagine Vienna felt in the hands of the ottomans - how would be the history of Europe or the western World . They fightend for the christian world. If Vienna was fallen - Rome would be gone. Love from Austria 🇦🇹
@@benginaldclocker2891 u are right also about the anglo saxons. I was more refering to the fact that the winged husars rode down a Hill to save a besieged city
Ottomans didnt bring treasures the way you think, that wos probably treasure looted befeore in previous attacks, and as for the hussar wings people think they looked like in movies/graphicks, well not quite... there wos feathers but they werent just for show or morale boost between them were small metal plates witch in high speed run make so much noise that frightened enemy horses and soldiers, there were battles in XVI century when 200 husars protected cities from 10 000 attacking forces for days, before enemies learn how to deal with them with special traps and fortifications husars were probably best elite riding units in europe, and not every man could join them only upper classes with their own horses, domians etc so they were almoust always well equiped trained and prepared with provisions.
A few years a go there was a news story about the skeleton of a camel found by archaeologists under a Vienna basement. Within the area of modern day Vienna, in one of the suburbs outside the 1683 walls of Vienna that the Ottomons occupied. The Hapsburgs became famous for things like the weird chins as a result of interbreeding in earlier generations. Their territory was built through dynastic marriages. That's how the Kings of Spain came into possession of the Netherlands and enough of Germany to win the elections for the Holy Roman Emperor, and gained a load of northern Italy. Once that empire began to form, the only way they could keep hold of it was by not marrying outsiders. And centuries of wars in northern Italy, the Netherlands and Germany, including the Spanish Armada war against England under Elizabeth Tudor and the Thirty Years War in Germany against the Protestants. Various congenital weaknesses from interbreeding contributed to the ultimate downfall of the Habsburg family.
Regarding the wings, it has been said many times, the Polish-Lithuanian hussars did not have these wings, or at least they were not so visible and important.
They were used as defence their back against lasso and swords as well as symbols and of course they should have make the eemies scared since they were nown for them. Just the sight of the wings on rider was enough to destroy the moral of enemies units.
There were many turkish /austrian wars. 3 times. Nowadays we are very multi culti. Vienna is sourrounded by moutains. Yes its 680 meters over sea Level. But Austria itself is not flat. We have lots of Mountains.Your first guess seems to be right. Yes its Vienniese. I like the Scots. They are fearless, strong fighters. There is even a vienniese kilt with its own pattern.
The Janisseries were slave soldiers who were recruited by taxing Christian subjects of the Ottomon empire by taking a son from a family unless they could pay heavily. The enslaved Christian boys were raised as Muslims in military acedemies. They were treated as a military elite and expected to be the first to attack and to serve in every military campaign of the Sultans. Although slaves, over time they began to be paid more and more to buy their loyalty in the Palace politics of the Ottomon empire, where the Harem system guaranteed there would always be heirs to the throne, but so many from different mothers they would have to kill each other to win the throne. They became so corrupted and unreliable politically and militarily, threatening coups if they didn't want to join or end a war or take a pay cut, that eventually in both Seljuk Egypt and Ottomon Turkey they were disbanded by force to make way for more modern soldiers recruited in the normal way.
35:58 Yea this video you reacting to is terrible. I unsubed from this channel shortly after realising how biased it is towards some countries. History should be not biased, it should pure facts. And the most fun ''fact'' is , you are american (stereotypes) yet you ask the most intelligent questions in your video.
hey man leave the intro including " leave the video if you are not ready to learn. It wont promote your channel and will always come as downgrading to people who just want to remind themselfe of history
if no one betreys ottoman empire, winged hussars got rekted. but the sultan's plan was failed because of his noob commanders. he must go and lead the army by himself. oh and also theres no way to stop a cavarly charge if you have only infantry and the polish troops had the high ground
"We saw it… the hussars let loose their horses.God ,what power! Thay run through the smoke and the sound was like that o a thousand blacksmiths beating with a thousand hammers. We saw it... Jesus Maria! The elite's lances bent forward like stalks of rye, driven by a great storm, bent on glory! The fire of the guns before them glitters! They rush on to the Swedes! They crash into the Swedish riters…. Overwhelm them! They crash into the second regiment - Overwhelmed! Resistance collapses, dissolves, they move forward as easily as if they were parading on a grand boulevard. They sliced without effort through the whole army already. Next target: the regiment of horse guards, where stands the Swede King Carol. And the guard already wavers!"
Description from Potop "Deluge" by Henryk Sienkiewicz
I love the title; "And then the Winged Hussars arrived". One of the Sabaton's songs. Highly recommended to listen to.
I recommend a look at the battle of Kircholm (1605). It shows the power of husaria (Polish "winged" hussars). Polish army (or rather Polish - Lithuanian Commonwelth army): about 3500 men; Swedish army: around 11 000 men. Polish casaulties: 100 men (about 200 wounded), 150 horses, BUT: only 13 men from husaria. Swedish casaulties: at least 6 000 men, but some sources say that even up to 9000. Guess who won :)?
After that 100 years later they say Poland "thank you". Austrian, Germany and Russia attacked Poland. Poland dissapeard from europen map for 123 years.
Austrian here! Today the western outskirts of Vienna are pressed against the start of the Alps. In the late 17th century there were a few km between the first mountains and the city walls. It is not completly flat but rather a gentle decent toward the Danube and Wien rivers. There is even a park marking the location of the main Ottoman camp, called "Türkenschanzpark". It translates to "Park of the turkish defenses".
The counter- mines of the defenders were meant to collaps and blow up the mines of the Ottomans. For clarification: mines are the tunnels that both sides dug (as in goldmine not landmine). The purpose of them was to fill the end of the tunnel (or mine) with expolsives and blow it up, thereby collapsing the structure above it. This however also collapsed the mine, making a second detonation of the same mine impossible.
As to the large chin or lip of the Habsburgs: that was a result of incestous marriges to keep the bloodline pure. It is know as the Habsburg Lip
I dont think it had anything to do with "bloodline purity". It was simply a power-politics and alliance game. When all the powerful people are your relatives and alliances are often signed by marriage, you end up with a family tree that looks more circular than you would like...
All armies, whether they were professional, conscripted or mercenary forces generally got paid through looting captured towns and cities. There wasn’t much in the way of regular pay for most soldiers.
In the 17th century, the Winged Hussars were the most feared soldiers in Europe. Heavy cavalry in full armor, with a long lance, a saber and a pistol (useful for shooting opposing matchlock gunmen).
Laughs in swedish
Sabaton :)
@@Rumpknullet You shouldn’t.
@@ChillDudelD Why not?
@@Rumpknullet Learn history, but more unbiased this time.
Interesting that it should remind you of helms deep as the siege of Vienna and the charge of the Winged Hussars is the exact inspiration for the battle of helms deep
It is a mix of that and siege of szigetvár where Nikola Šubić Zrinski held the castle with the a hugely outnumbered garrison against Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. Sultan died at that siege and the Ottomans took heavy casualties despite outnumbering the defenders a hundred times. When the Turks were about to break through the last gates, the last defenders led by Zrinski charged through the gate and across a small bridge and fought till the last man to meet the Ottomans head on in display of heroism. That is identical to Helms Deep except the fact that no help arrived that day. So Tolkien combined those two because they were the most important strategic victories against the Ottoman assault.
Actually, I'd say that he based battle of Minas Tirith on the siege of Vienna.
SandRhoman - great to see more of these vids, always loved his detail and animations.
13:05 Yes it is.
The whole terrain of the battle is nowadays part of the huge city. But once you descend from the hills in the east, the terrain is flat and rolls seamlessly into the Hungarian plain.
If one mining tunnel encountered another, the miners fought each other with what they had to hand. A mining pick through the skull will kill an enemy just as well as a sword.
Of course the ideal was to get your tunnel into position just below or just above the enemy tunnel. If you were below you could start a fire and eliminate the wooden mining supports, which would collapse your tunnel and usually the other one as well. If you were above, you could break through your floor and drop all sorts of nasty things into the tunnel below - on at least one occasion that nasty thing was a bear.
Can you imagine being the miners in those tunnels, digging away towards the enemy walls to plant a mine beneath them, never quite sure that today wouldn't be the day when the floor collapsed beneath you and dropped you into a fire, or the day when you'd be fighting another virtually naked man in a narrow tunnel lit only by an oil lamp and both armed with picks and shovel, or maybe about to get a wasps nest dropped on your head, or hot oil poured on you, or maybe the next thing your pick hits will be a bear? It's no wonder they - and the sappers who dug the trenches closer and closer to the enemy walls - received higher pay than the ordinary soldier.
The Kraut video about the ottomans is really good and in detail
32:33 I mean, they referenced LotR back at the beginning when Sobiesky got the message ^^
They did wear wings, though we still dont know what is the purpose of wings.
It caused a mighty noise which seemed like a formidable enemy bearing down on them. It wasn’t the horses that got scared but the foot soldiers and the opposing cavalry. The Polish cavalry was the finest example of horsemanship and bravery at that time. King Jan Sobieski was an outstanding leader. Kara Mustafa vowed to take the GOLDEN APPLE (Vienna) and then the rest of The Christian West to turn it into a Muslim world. After the defeat, the OTTOMAN empire no longer tried to go against the western world.
@@tonmarinaxxzz Kara Mustafa went there only after he get a prophecy that his blood will not be spill. which he thought meant he wouldnt die..
@@ceskyvlk8469 yes,he was a brave leader but his defeat meant he had to die to save his honor, but then you know the history better than I know it!!!!!!
Could be a way of identifying units on the battlefield
About famous Habsburgs chin, that's the effect of years of excessive inbreeding, to gather and hold all power in small amount of hands.
Poland 🇵🇱 forever ❤️
Ranks with Salamis in 480 and Constantinople in 717-718 as the greatest defensive victories of the West
I know it is not the same but Japan over Russia and the Roman failure in Germania give me feeling like this.
Your question" how thay have treasures" They lrobbed vileges and cites before the Viena. They had all of it with them in the camp
imagine Vienna felt in the hands of the ottomans - how would be the history of Europe or the western World . They fightend for the christian world.
If Vienna was fallen - Rome would be gone.
Love from Austria 🇦🇹
That battle inspired tolkien fir helms deep. Tge riders of rohan are the winged husars
actually the riders of rohan were literally Anglo-Saxons with horses (because Tolkien loves the anglo-saxons), but you're right
@@benginaldclocker2891 u are right also about the anglo saxons.
I was more refering to the fact that the winged husars rode down a Hill to save a besieged city
@@MrBenedictus25 ye exactly, that's why I agreed with you there
Ottomans didnt bring treasures the way you think, that wos probably treasure looted befeore in previous attacks, and as for the hussar wings people think they looked like in movies/graphicks, well not quite... there wos feathers but they werent just for show or morale boost between them were small metal plates witch in high speed run make so much noise that frightened enemy horses and soldiers, there were battles in XVI century when 200 husars protected cities from 10 000 attacking forces for days, before enemies learn how to deal with them with special traps and fortifications husars were probably best elite riding units in europe, and not every man could join them only upper classes with their own horses, domians etc so they were almoust always well equiped trained and prepared with provisions.
A few years a go there was a news story about the skeleton of a camel found by archaeologists under a Vienna basement. Within the area of modern day Vienna, in one of the suburbs outside the 1683 walls of Vienna that the Ottomons occupied.
The Hapsburgs became famous for things like the weird chins as a result of interbreeding in earlier generations. Their territory was built through dynastic marriages. That's how the Kings of Spain came into possession of the Netherlands and enough of Germany to win the elections for the Holy Roman Emperor, and gained a load of northern Italy. Once that empire began to form, the only way they could keep hold of it was by not marrying outsiders. And centuries of wars in northern Italy, the Netherlands and Germany, including the Spanish Armada war against England under Elizabeth Tudor and the Thirty Years War in Germany against the Protestants. Various congenital weaknesses from interbreeding contributed to the ultimate downfall of the Habsburg family.
helms deep was inspired by this battle
Now you know where Vienna Blood and the Wienerwald Waltz is coming from. Hehe
Regarding the wings, it has been said many times, the Polish-Lithuanian hussars did not have these wings, or at least they were not so visible and important.
Among other things, they used the wings probably to scare enemy, enemies horses and probably against the lasso in the wars in the east
They were used as defence their back against lasso and swords as well as symbols and of course they should have make the eemies scared since they were nown for them. Just the sight of the wings on rider was enough to destroy the moral of enemies units.
It is said that the Habsburgs had such huge chins because of incest which does make sense since it can result in deformities
They wore the wings all tge time
There were many turkish /austrian wars. 3 times. Nowadays we are very multi culti. Vienna is sourrounded by moutains. Yes its 680 meters over sea Level. But Austria itself is not flat. We have lots of Mountains.Your first guess seems to be right. Yes its Vienniese. I like the Scots. They are fearless, strong fighters. There is even a vienniese kilt with its own pattern.
3,59 funn............ there is no fuckin Polamd without polwnd we die....
16:40 the point was to destroy ottomans tunels i believe
The Janisseries were slave soldiers who were recruited by taxing Christian subjects of the Ottomon empire by taking a son from a family unless they could pay heavily. The enslaved Christian boys were raised as Muslims in military acedemies. They were treated as a military elite and expected to be the first to attack and to serve in every military campaign of the Sultans. Although slaves, over time they began to be paid more and more to buy their loyalty in the Palace politics of the Ottomon empire, where the Harem system guaranteed there would always be heirs to the throne, but so many from different mothers they would have to kill each other to win the throne. They became so corrupted and unreliable politically and militarily, threatening coups if they didn't want to join or end a war or take a pay cut, that eventually in both Seljuk Egypt and Ottomon Turkey they were disbanded by force to make way for more modern soldiers recruited in the normal way.
35:58 Yea this video you reacting to is terrible. I unsubed from this channel shortly after realising how biased it is towards some countries. History should be not biased, it should pure facts.
And the most fun ''fact'' is , you are american (stereotypes) yet you ask the most intelligent questions in your video.
The Hamburg chin was not an ugly result of inbreeding
hey man leave the intro including " leave the video if you are not ready to learn. It wont promote your channel and will always come as downgrading to people who just want to remind themselfe of history
Here is video in which you will find answers for your questions - th-cam.com/video/K_L5acJht3g/w-d-xo.html
Irish victory in the first Jacobite war, you might like this one
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Prinz eugen itter Ritter
if no one betreys ottoman empire, winged hussars got rekted. but the sultan's plan was failed because of his noob commanders. he must go and lead the army by himself. oh and also theres no way to stop a cavarly charge if you have only infantry and the polish troops had the high ground