Don't F*ck With Mother Russia
Erdogan and his delegation travelled to Moscow to meet with Putin. Putin had them stand under the statue of Catherine II, the Empress of Russia who crushed the Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774). It doesn’t get more humiliating than this for Erdogan.
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I hope that someone gets to remind Erdogan about the Polish King Jan Sobieski.
Great reminder, Bigfoot:
The allies were now ready for the last blow. At around 6:00 pm the Polish king (Sobieski) ordered the cavalry attack in four groups, three Polish and one from the Holy Roman Empire—18,000 horsemen charged down the hills, the largest cavalry charge in history.[34][35] Sobieski led the charge[18]:661 at the head of 3,000 Polish heavy lancers, the famed "Winged Hussars". The Muslim Lipka Tatars who fought on the Polish side wore a sprig of straw in their helmets to distinguish them from the Tatars fighting on the Ottoman side.[36] The charge easily broke the lines of the Ottomans, who were exhausted and demoralized and soon started to flee the battlefield. The cavalry headed straight for the Ottoman camps and Kara Mustafa's headquarters, while the remaining Viennese garrison sallied out of its defenses to join in the assault.[18]:661
Polish soldiers 1674–96.
The Ottoman troops were tired and dispirited following the failure of the attempt at sapping, the assault on the city and the advance of the Holy League infantry on the Türkenschanze.[18]:661 The cavalry charge was the final deadly blow. Less than three hours after the cavalry attack, the Catholic Christian forces had won the battle and saved Vienna. The first Catholic Christian officer who entered Vienna was Margrave Ludwig of Baden, at the head of his dragoons.[11] Afterwards Sobieski paraphrased Julius Caesar's famous quotation (Veni, vidi, vici) by saying "Veni, vidi, Deus vicit"—"I came, I saw, God conquered"
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