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Vienna 1683: The History and Consequences of the Defeat of the Turks before Vienna, September 12, 1683, by John Sobieski, King of Poland, and Charles Leopold, Duke of Lorraine — John Shaqi

Vienna 1683: The History and Consequences of the Defeat of the Turks before Vienna, September 12, 1683, by John Sobieski, King of Poland, and Charles Leopold, Duke of LorraineMalden, Henry Elliot

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Vienna 1683: The History and Consequences of the Defeat of the Turks before Vienna, September 12, 1683, by John Sobieski, King of Poland, and Charles Leopold, Duke of Lorraine

Name: Vienna 1683: The History and Consequences of the Defeat of the Turks before Vienna, September 12, 1683, by John Sobieski, King of Poland, and Charles Leopold, Duke of Lorraine
Author: Malden, Henry Elliot

Malden, Henry Elliot

Vienna (Austria) -- History -- Siege, 1683

KITLANDS, 1883.

SYNOPSIS OF EVENTS.

     1663. Ahmed Kiuprili Grand Vizier.

     1664. Montecuculi defeats the Turks at St. Gotthard. Twenty years'
     truce with Austria, by which the Turks retain most of Hungary.

     1669. The Turks take Candia from the Venetians.

     1671. Conspiracy in Hungary against the Emperor crushed.

     1672. French attack upon Holland provokes a general war. Treaty of
     Buksacs between the Turks and Poles. Poland cedes most of Podolia
     and the Ukraine, and pays tribute to Turkey.

     1673. The Polish nobles break the treaty. Great victory of Sobieski
     over the Turks at Choczim.

     1675. Sobieski crowned King of Poland.

     1676. Treaty of Zurawna between Turks and Poles; the former retain
     most of their conquests.

     1677. Death of Ahmed Kiuprili. Kara Mustapha Grand Vizier.

     1678. Tekeli heads an insurrection in Hungary against the Emperor.
     The French intrigue with him.

     1678-79. Treaties of Nimuegen between the French and the allies.

     1681. Louis XIV. seizes Strassburg and makes other aggressions upon
     the Empire. Treaty between Holland and Sweden against France.

     1682. Treaty of Laxenberg between the Emperor and the Upper German
     Circles against France, followed by similar treaties between the
     other Circles, the Emperor and Sweden. The Turks openly aid the
     Hungarians.

     1683. League of the Empire, Poland and the Pope, supported by other
     anti-French powers, against the Turks. Turkish invasion of Austria.
     Siege of Vienna. Defeat of the Turks by John Sobieski and the Duke
     of Lorraine, September 12. The French attack the Spanish
     Netherlands in the autumn.

     1684. Truce of Ratisbon between France and the Empire.

     1686. Buda recovered from the Turks. League of Augsburg between the
     Emperor and the Circles of Western Germany, joined ultimately by
     Spain, Holland, the Pope, Savoy and other Princes of the Empire,
     against the French.

     1688. The English Revolution secures England for the side of the
     League, which she joins next year. General war with France follows.

     1696. Death of Sobieski.

     1697. Treaty of Ryswick between France and the allies. Eugene
     defeats the Turks at Zenta, in Hungary.

     1699. Peace of Carlowitz. The Turks cede nearly all Hungary,
     Transylvania, Podolia, the Ukraine, the Morea and Azof. The first
     great diminution of Turkish territory in Europe.

VIENNA.

1683.

CHAPTER I.

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Vienna 1683: The History and Consequences of the Defeat of the Turks before Vienna, September 12, 1683, by John Sobieski, King of Poland, and Charles Leopold, Duke of Lorraine

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