The Largest Cavalry Charge in History: The Battle of Vienna
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2024
- Largest cavalry charge in history. It today’s modern battlefield of clanking gears, thumping rotors, and noxious fumes, it can be difficult to imagine a time where you only had to worry about the noxious fumes as it pertained to military vehicles. But that was the way it was for much of human history. For most of human civilization, if you wanted to dominate the battlefield you had to have one thing. The horse.
The Winged Hussars originally started out as Serbian mercenary units back in the late 1400’s to early 1500s. They made much of their name fighting against Ottoman raids into Europe, so outside of Vienna in 1683 was far from the first time these two forces have come face to face. Once Subieski took charge in Poland, the Hussars became the elite calvary of the Polish army and membership was restricted down to just the Polish nationality. The horses were especially bred to be exceptionally fearless, fast, and agile. The Polish thought so highly of their hassar horses that it became legal code to enact the death penalty to anybody that sold one. The knights on the backs of these fearful steeds were loaded down with a variety of weaponry.
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00:00 Introduction
03:32 Leading up to the battle
04:28 Almost missing the charge
05:02 What is a Winged Hussar?
07:05 The Charge and destruction
09:48 The death of the Ottoman General
One of my ancestors, an engineer, designed and built the longest pontoon bridge to that date across the Danube that enabled the Hussars to cross upstream of Vienna. We were rewarded by the Hapsburgs with a coat of arms and a license to produce gunpowder.
Very nice.
"We remember....
In September....
When the Winged Hussars arrived".
A fellow sabaton fan I see
18000 heavy horses at the Gallop? That would have been deafening.
Sorry to dampen your mood though quite some time late. The paper strength was 3000 winged hussars and 15.000 lighter cavalry. Given the realities of 17th century warfare you have to subtract a few hundred up to one or two thousand from this paper strength. Still, even with only with 15.000 altogether, it would have been the largest charge in recorded history. I think there were probably some bigger charges in the Stepps during the times pf the Xiongiu or Mongol or Gök Türk Empires though they haven't been recorded as far as I know.
@@MS-io6kl Still, 15 000 cavallery attacking at full speed must have been a sight to behold... and the sound must have been insane. I live in Vienna and have visited Kahlenberg, where they supposedly gathered (I think that is false though). Anyways, from there you can see basically all of Vienna. A splendid view! It is possible to go there, only using public transport.
Not all of them polish. Its a coalition.
@@aetius7139 personally, I know it was a coalition. But I don´t think the concept of countries where very widespread back then. I´d say it was about family relations - that was the deciding factor. Owning a pice of land was important, yes, but marrying right was more important. That is why the Habsburgers became so powerful.
Then the Winged Hussars Arrived!
Such an awesome story
Of course , from Poland, the E European country. They were the saviour along with P. Eugene to the defenders against the cunning _ cruel Otto. Turks.
Coming down the mountain side!!
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I think the way Europe is going we might need this type brave Men again.
And if poland needs help, true brits will be ready to support once more
The threat of Islam has risen once again.
They won't settle for peace, they are in Europe to take it.
Europeans such as Hungarians, Poles, Slovaks, Czechks.. they all understand the danger ahead.
Shame the westerners won't see Islam for what it is.
Don't worry Poles are still here, we saved you in wwII, in 1683, just give us the adversary!
@@colonelturmeric558 once more? Like u did with france in 1939, and than in Jalta? ;) joke, but be carefull with saying such thngs when some poles are listening.
Poland has not been pussyfied by the WOKE Marxist like the rest of Western Europe has... For this reason Poland along with Hungary will be the next great power in Europe as Germany and France / Britain are overrun by black Africans and Turks.... America will be fighting a 2nd revelution / civil war against the same WOKE Marxist that are destroying the WEST from the inside . So it will be up to Poland to step up and save Europe again... God be with the true Europeans and God Bless American Patriots and as always F@ck Joe Biden...... FJB......
Glorious winged hussars...
Just a few of my remarks :-)
1. Hussars did start as Serbian light horsemen, but they became elite unit after reforms of hungarian born king Stephan Bathory, about 100 years before Sobieski
2. Selling hussar horse was punishable by death but only if You sold one abroad
3. Being a hussar were not restricted to a polish nationality, it rather depended on who could afford it. There definitely was a lithuanian winged hussar banner
4. Hussar did not carry all these weapons at once, it largely depended on whom they fighting and the terrain they were in.
5. As far as I know Hussar horses were not armored and although death rate of winged hussars was very low at battles, death rate of their horses was waaaay higher. It added up to an overall cost of upkeeping of these elite force, because these horses cost ridiculous amount of money at a time
Just to add that you don't have to be heavily armoured to be an elite unit. There are numerous examples of elite light cavalry unit in history. Same for infantry.
batory was born on the romanian lands not hungarian and he was a polish king not hungarian and hussars did not come from the serbian the beginnigs were in spain its just that with time it became a symbol of the polish army cuse poland had made the hussars transform from a light cavalery into a heavy cavalery my guy but all in one ur mostly right
@@tomaszmasicz1177 hungarian born - to znaczy urodzonego na Węgrzech a nie ,że był węgierskim królem. Z resztą nie będę się spierał, zbyt leniwy jestem by to teraz weryfikować, aczkolwiek pierwsze słyszę żeby husarze przywędrowali do Polski z Hiszpanii. I raczej zostanę przy swojej wersji.
urodzil sie na terenie rumuni a nie na wegrzech o to mi chodzilo@@Xavras
Whilst hussars were lightly armoured winged hussars wore heavy armour reminiscent of European knights
2:00 Digging under the walls and undermining it's foundation is actually a very well known tactic. It's called sapping officially, and where we get the term "undermining" from!
Winged Hussars the Pride of Polish Lithuania they are like Angels of Death that will down upon you! K
They were magnificent!
5:25 Actually the Winged Hussars came to be a century eariler during the reign of a Hungarian King of Poland - Stefan I Batory (r. 1576-1586).
Jan III Sobieski was the last monarch who sucessfully used the Husaria on the battlefield. In the Great Northern War, his sucessor, Augustus the Strong of the House of Wettin, oulled the Commonwealth into the war, and Charles XII of Sweden broke 100 years of Husaria's invincibility. After that they were essentially ceremonial cavalry.
This is an amazing breakdown! Thank you!
Thanks. Excellent presentation.
We can all be thankful in Europe that the Ottomans were defeated then - imagine a Europe under the tyranny of Islam, a Europe without the Enlightenment, without the Renaissance, without democracy.
Coffee was introduced to Europe when it was found in Ottoman Turkish tents after a battle.
Something good came from that
@@jasminvoloder2724yeah the Ottomans got their ass kicked 😂
Yes! Ottoman army in that time used coffee like a battle doping. The Christians armies used wine or beer. Today, armies used amphetamines or something similar like pervitin/ speed tablets. PS: All junkies must know that today drugs were ex military or medicine drugs. And coffee is also a drug.
@@Jason-gg4lm Their empire, which basically covered the whole middle-east, lasted from 1453 to 1918. They knocked out the Eastern Roman Empire, which had survived for 1000 years after the Western Roman Empire fell. They won quite a few battles, believe me.
The first Vienna coffee shop was opened after 1683 using the coffee bean bags from the plundered ottoman camp.
I always wonder why people feel compelled to create videos like this w/o checking basic facts. So by number: 1) No, winged hussars had been converted from ligh auxuliary cavalry into main schock cavalry not by SObieski, but by Bathory, some 100 years earlier. At Oesha in 1514 they were still suplementary to late medieval knights of Kingdom of Poland, at Lubieszw and Byszczyna they were main assould wapon of Polish army. 2) No, membership of Hussars banners was not restricted to 'Polish nationality" but to the members of nobility and citizens of The COmmonwealth, regardless o f ethnict (this is even more obiosus if you would know that Grand Duchy of Lithuania had its own banners of hussars with major contribution of Ruthenians) 3) You really should check how to pronaunce 'szabla', this was a defining part of attire of Commonwealth attire and weaponry 4) No, hussars were not 'heavily armored', at least if you compare them to medieval standards. In fact hussar's armour was were clever, covering only vital part and quite light, allowing unrestricted manouvering and meele fighting 5) No, apart from 3000 hussars, Kingdom of Poland provided majority of other cavalry that took part in the charge, some 10000-11000 horse total (I wrote Kingdom of Poland as Lithuanian army was late and did not take part in the battle)
Quite obious mistakes. Low quality of research considering that the topic is well described.
I searched very far for this post so that I didn't have to make it! Well done. There are other CZcams videos that give this subject due diligence. thank you!
Unknown victory of the hussars. Mogilev 1581. 1 against 225 opponents, they won. 195 to 45000.
If I remember this huge force decided that it wasn't worth it to fight and siege them
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That's not true, the fight lasted for 7 hours. Russian troops fled when they were informed that another unit of hussars, this time with 350 men, was approaching the battle site.
@@vlkplz oh sorry thanks for correcting me
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At Vienna, the Polish king and his son fought in an open battle. It wasn't that it hurt. 15,000 people against 150,000. They won.
Poland is underrated. Maria Skłodowska-Curie (only two Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry), Copernicus, Czochraski, Kościuszko (built West Point), Pulaski, etc.
@@psychodoxie6987
Poles are a strange nation. They practically did not beat others. In the 18th century, a black man became a Polish general. The Polish nobleman was married to a French woman. She gave birth to a black son. The Polish general did not reject him. He recognized him as his son.
Polish history is strange. Mostly armies are equal. Poles can attack the enemy at 1/20. It is normal,
Everyone knows about the "katana". Japanese sword.
They had no chance against the Polish saber. It can cut metal at least 0.5 cm. Resistance to deflection 25 cm. They didn't break.
Off course, there are fakes in our times. The Polish saber could not bend or break.
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Taking part in the that battle was one of the biggest polish mistakes
Less the 100 years later Austria will thank Poland for saving them from Ottomans taking part in partition of Poland
We will never help you again
in 1683 Sobieski should tell austrian "You give me Śląsk/Slesien back to Poland, I will help you" In 2022 polish should tell to Kraina-U " you will do this:........ , than we can help you". NOT help for cheap price for others nation as Kraina_U or...Hitler's country
@@midtownmariner5250 not at all, but surely you don't know that Ottomans didn't have any reason or plans to attack Polish Lithuanian commonwealth, Poland was too strong
Yea, but at least we kept the Muslims out of Europe, now only Poland in present day europe.
@@DrJeffreyMSeder now Muslims are talking Europe by the wombs of their women
without even winning any battle so far
Really dude? If it weren't for the Winged Husars all of Europe would be under Islamic tyranny...
Maybe not all, but a great portion
I think the use of LOTR scenes was confusing. There is enough footage available from patriotic polish movies dealing with this event.
Links?
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@@BobSmith-dk8nw - Lazy much? Your brain>>> your fingers on keyboard>>>>google>>>> information sought and found. Figure it out.
Sobietsky wing hussars are very famous
150 years before this incident was the failure of capturing Vienna by Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I, not Suleiman II as mentioned in the video.
Nice video 👍🏾👍🏾
In the video clips put together for the introduction, completely false armies such as Crusaders, Templars and Vikings can be seen. The pictures do not give a correct impression of the events of that time. Greetings from Vienna.
and .some Sahara desert (?) , which is not known around Wien
Yes ... we all know it is so easy to have period piece footage of any and every type of military unit and any equipment they might use. You merely snap you fingers - and like magic - it all instantly appears.
Everyone knows that.
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@@BobSmith-dk8nw perhaps with AI now. yes.. I get your point lol
What a confusing videocollection, Lord of the Rings, Jerusalem, some hussars, vikings and so on.
Left the hussar footage from the battle in my camera bag….
the Habsburgs - as rulers of Austria and the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation - were definitely NOT at odds with the Ottomans for 300 years. The two only met directly about 150 years before. after which the Kingdom of Hungary fought the Ottomans for about 150 years and finally lost it at Mohács in 1526. The Habsburgs almost always stabbed the Hungarians in the back when the Hungarians went into the field. The two sieges of Vienna failed partly because Hungarian castles and Hungarian/Croatian units prevented and delayed the Ottoman advance. Without that, Sobieski would have been late, only saw the Turkish flags over Vienna. 🤔😉
I agree and have sympathy. Only National, Selfish and Sectarian Interests, you see. Rather, they mean, the Austro _ Germans, English , French and Roman - Italians , along with the Spanish n Portuguese must have given Importance to the whole Europe and the Christian ___ Catho., E Orthodox and the Protest. Unity, it would have been better. The Ottoman- Turks or the Turks couldn t have reached near the gates of Vienna, if they had previously tried hard to stop the Muslim _ Turks from the side of Greece i.e. , the Balkans. The Turks not only harassed the Greeks but also, other parts of Balkans, and even, in the later years, they started their dangerous game in many other parts of the Eastern EUROPA or EUROPE as a whole. Anyway, Good day to You all.
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I could be wrong here, but didn't Gangus Kahn and the Mongols attack with about 100K soldiers all on horseback?
Yes, I was wondering that.
a Mongol Tuman was 10k but multiple Tuman did work together, and in the initial years they were all on horseback, both heavy and light?
I couldn't find any references to them all charging at once. They would have been broken up into many many units and used more for intimidation. When they did attack where they went into a giant circle around you and just shoot arrows into you. No frontal Lance charges. And for the record they weren't all hussars most of them are at least half of them were just from Germany and Italy and all the other countries. The hussars just took the lead and were best known of the group.
You can still see some of the loot scattered around various Central European museums.
Then the Austrians opened the Gates and let the Invaders in
Well.... the story is way more complicated.... the polish Hussars were lucky that there were envy and "bad blood" in the Ottoman army...... The Kussacks was ordered to attack the polish Hussars on their way to Vienna, but turned the blind eye, as a pay back to the Turkisk arrogange ...... If the Kossacks had taken a chunk of the Winged Hussars.... the final Battle could easy have taken a different turn...... but by luck...
Cavalry of 18000 knights are charging towards you... no wonder Turkey still haven't fully recovered.
The Mongolian has the largest cavalry charge. They charge right across Europe with a million plus riders.
Is this debatable?
the same polish lithouanian commonwealth that a century later will be sliced between austria prussia and russia this is the thx that austria showed to the polish people and i am a greek.
Correct
no one would have ever lied or exaggerated.
Greetings from Austria!
The main reason though that the charge was overwhelmingly successful was… the ottomans had no rear defensive cavalry ditches.. and they never expected The relief army at all… the scene was set for the charge … a huge large flat field with no obstruction… perfect for horse…
That was what the Ottoman commander was executed for. A fundamental error. He didn't expect the Polish and Austrian forces to come over the hills, even though he had a camp up the slopes somewhat.
Not only the lasrgest, the most elite and better equipped mounted force on history, even superior on some aspects to mongol hordesl, truly a magnificent battle signaling the end of an era.
Yes a winged hussars Lott reference. Yes
Nice hussars...
the greatest cavalry charge is not that of the Battle of Vienna against the siege, because it was fought in several movements. No, the largest was that of the Napoleonic cavalry at the battle of Eylau...12,000 cavalry in a single movement..... a devastating charge!
exclusive in europe, warfare in the asia stepps and China have many larger cavalry charge records
@@liran547 ....give example please and source i'm interest in.
@@gandigooglegandigoogle7202 search General Huo Qubing, from Han Dynasty Historical records (Han Shu, 220 AD), you know China, huge population and rich, so the number can easily get wars in China
No . Polish Wi!nged Hussars!!! Now we come for you
@@liran547 This channel is Euro-centric so it will not recognize anything from Asia
Good effort, but even the title has a mistake
NGL, I saw Krieg in that thumbnail until I noticed the horse had no mask
Tunnelling and undermining castle or city walls was SOP in siege warfare from the dawn of time.
ALL HAIL THE WINGED HUSSARS!!!
Why isn't this a movie? Sounds like game of thrones.
No kidding!
See movie "With fire and steel"
Another movie of roughly same period from a Russian perspective including Hussaria is "1612". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1612_(film)
Dark angels ravenwing in a real context
Rohan saved us from Ottomans!
Gandalf and King Theoden were true heroes and yet no single monuments in Europe...😔
And Rohan will answer, death...
3.000 Winged Husars and 15.000 German cavalery.. every man was important, but the story that Sobievsky and the wing husars saved Vienna is a little bit too simple. Anyway - we Germans should not forget that they helped us.
3000 Winged Husars and total 20 000 cavalery polish.
Apart from Hussars there also were thousands of lighter polish cavalry.
de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlacht_am_Kahlenberg
@@edgarbaumeister6450 Sobieski took from Kraków around 27k riders just of the Crown of Poland alone. Lithuanians excluded as their rotas were delayed and didnt take part in battle. Total amount of charging cavalry was circa 31k.
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitwa_pod_Wiedniem
@@edgarbaumeister6450 Polish cavalry is diminished here. Cavalry forces of Crown of Poland were 27k strong.
Incorrect, if you want to dominate a battlefield before the birth of engines you use elephants! 😂
And today we invite them and give them social health care!
Is every Historian forgetting that the nomadic peoples of the steppe fought only on horseback? Certainly during Genghis Kahn’s wars of unification the Cav vs. Cav battles were more immense in terms of number of horsemen than western/European battles.
Title is cavalry charge though, nomadic peoples used mostly horse archers and didn’t necessarily charge en masse, rather favouring skirmish and circling tactics. Europes horses were practically always most prominent in melee actions when it came to large engagements, light horse units didn’t tend to have the same doctrine
@@colonelturmeric558 That might be true for early nomadic people but by the time of Genghis Khan that had changed, he didn't use just horse archers, the Central Asian powers knew how to counter those types of armies, they had been facing them for 1500 years, they wouldn't have crumbled only faced with that. The Mongols also had a lot of heavy cavalry, think spearmen on horse back. And you see this continuing with the Timurids and Golden Horde.
I find this extremely hard to believe when the average Mongol military unit consisted of 20,000 cavalry.
I think it is so cute to think that the largest cavalry charge in history would be performed by Europeans, when Mongols were Asian. 18,000 is a lot of cavalry for Europeans but that is less than 2 Mongol Tumens.
This is hundreds of years after the Mongol Empire. The Mongols were mainly horse 🐴 archers and not shock cavalry. They did charge some times, but not in such large groups all at once.
Isn't Eylau the biggest cavalry charge ?
it is
The Calvary charge at Eylau consisted of 10,700 horsemen. Falling 7,300 short of this charge against the Ottomans.
In Europe maybe. The Sassanids, Parthians, Scythians, to name only a few were all 90% cavalry armies, often in armies over 100k in size. The chance that none of these armies, over 10 centuries, delivered a cavalry charge > 12k, is vanishingly small.
Not everything revolves around Europe...
@@pmurnion This isnt true, these armies weren't 90% cav, even the mongols had a large core of infantry. You must be thinking about the vanguards of those armies. Still there is a limit about cavalry charges, it's very hard to charge 10k troops in the right conditions so that's why we never saw bigger charges. Ancient Battlefields weren't that large and the key to winning was concentring forces at the right time, it's pointless to charge 100K horsemen for only a few thousand being able to actually fight. I admit tho you are right about europe's military history overshadowing the rest
@@leilagorrilla4842 the Han and Xiongnu wars were fought only on horseback, numbers were way larger then this
The Massive Chinned Habsburgs got me dead
Tone down the fucking background noise
My ancestor was there!
Polacy nie potrzebują Wiednia, Polacy są cenniejsi niż antyturecka koalicja w Wiedniu.
jak antypolska koalicja Niemcy Prusy Watykan Habsburgow Węgry ,kozacka rosyjska i ukraińska
Polacy są lepsi od wszystkich
Wiedeń nie jest tym, z czego Polacy powinni być szczęśliwi i dumni
Wiedeń Kahlenberg 1683 to brud
historia to pokazała
Polska jest silna i duża także bez Kahlenberg 1683 Wiednia
Clearly this guy has no idea of the mongol warfare...
And has anyone asked himself: how many Winged Hussars did Poland have?
What about the Mongols
Which is ironic because Germany and Poland fought side by side to save Austria from the ottomans yet in world war 11 Poland was the first European nation was overrun and conquered by an Austrian named Adolf Hitler.
One sees it in the movies, so it may, or may not be true. Lots of sword cuts go straight thorough amour, surely not, if that was the case, why wear it? Also, so many arrows go thorough amour, one had thought that only the English low bow had enough power to penetrate amour.
There's a thing called missing a shot and armor being not made out of paper mache. Armor mostly is made out of steel.
@@ezonplays2260 Yeah, but. So many arrow shots show the arrow going through the 'amour'. Plus steel was not invented until carbon was put into iron ore. Also, so much amour in those days was Leather. Or bronze. Not trying to be smart. lol and this is the movies.
Please say in Europe don't distort history the Chinese and Mongols had armies of a couple hundred thousand. What is the difference between 20000 and 50000?
Long life to the Spanish arquebusiers, Spain, hammer of heretics, light of Trent, sword of Rome.
hEAVY CAVALRY WITH BOTH LANCE AND PISTOL - OH MY! (oops "caps lok"...
Where do the 40,000 horsemen of the Australian Light Horse who charged the guns at Beersheba fit in this claim ?
Its crazy to think that Europe is only the size of the USA...
There was no rank between the pasha and the sultan, so the sultan commanded his execution, not some high rankink soldier.
More than casual footage...
Most of the sobieskis cav were Pancerni. Hussars were the minioryty
Btw there is no good historical movie that would show hussars properly. They always wear read uniforms (in reality they were more colorfull) or they have those stupid wings (they have never used them in battle. Those wings appeared in 18 th century and it was used only in ceremonies)
If the video is about the siege of Vienna and the winged hussars quit showing video of fictional lord of the ring’s cavalry and 500 year prior crusaders
Yeah I should’ve used my footage from the actual Siege of Vienna but I lost the film roll
Hold on you missed some vital info. The Polish King had to argue with other countries, only when the catholic (close to top of church) set down the Polish plan is the plan.The Polish went to the top of a big hill, they brought there cannons this happened while it was raining att night, DARK. No one especially Muslims thought it was not possible to get ontop of the hill. Cannons were firing as the Polish King charged into the Muslims. Just missing every important Muslim leaders like royals and generals captured a massive fortune the Muslims were forced to leave.
Not Hussars. They are THE Husaria. They were POLISH, so speak the Polish name. DRC'd.
Interesting video, but you spelled Cavalry wrong. You wrote CALVARY, which is the place where Jesus Christ was crucified. The name you want to use is spelled C-A-V-A-L-R-Y.
I agree.
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I remember this in history class..but that's in the 50's and 60's. We took European history. Do they still teach it? This was only up thru 8th grade. More in HS including China history if preferred.
They no longer teach this unfortunately. They teach us to despise the crusades and think they evil and see Europe in a negative light.
Near the beginning of the video the belligerent nations were referred to as the Ottoman Empire and Austria. There was no Austria. Austria didn't come into existence until the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. The correct name was the Austro- Hungarian Empire.
Holy roman empire the austro Hungarian empire did exist until the late 19th century.
@@patrickporter1864 It existed until 1919. I misspoke though. At the time of the siege it was the Holy Roman Empire.
There was a cavalry battle between the Mongols and Indians that involved so many that the mongols counted 300k dead indians. We know these casualties to be true since the mongols cut off an ear from every enemy corpse and counted them after battles. I think the charges in this battle were much larger than the one at Vienna.
Cavalry charge, not cavalry army.
It was a cavalry only battle of about half a million im sure there were charges much bigger there than at your battle@@Nonviableaccount
Pedantic 😢shite 😅!
He had to use scenes of the Charge of the Rohirrim because the Hussar Charge in Victoria was so underwhelming. "How do we show 3000 winged horsemen charging down a mountainside? I know!!! Focus on the king and a dozen riders around him." :(
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Jeeze, there's a unicorn and fantasy armor at3:09 At least use some honest video or AI generated Winged Hussares with the accompanying artillery
OMG without the Winged Hussars Europe could be like the Middle East?
Charges didnt looks liké films
Dude forgot about mongol cavalry.
That’s next
Mere 18k wouldn't count as biggest cavalry charge. 18k is casual number in Asia.😂😂😂
Didnt this battle end the Muslim incursions into Europe?
Genghis Khan rolls his eyes.
Real question, do you have a source? I would genuinely love a decent source about the sheer size of Genghis Khan’s force!
@@radhistory1178 Unfortunately there was no Thukydides around. All sources go for never more than 20 tuman for offence duty. That is 200000 men, 5 times as many horses, all cavalry anyway.
The Huns forces, 800 years earlier, again only cavalry had not smaller numbers, ruling not for such a so long time period though.
Eurocentric superlativs never take into account that India and China always inhabited a lot more people than Europe, at any time.
@@radhistory1178 Take for example the battle of Ankara, Timur had an army of over 100.000, probably closer to 150.000, almost exclusively made up of cavalry. Now in this particular case I don't think Timur ever really charged the line of infantry in this manner but you only need to imagine how big the charges were even in single individual fronts of battle, I mean even let's say a right wing facing the other cavalry wing in a battle like this would be bigger than what happened at Vienna. Oh, and this battle is actually dwarfed by the previous war between Timur and the Golden Horde, the final battle on Terek River actually involved huge armies, even modern estimates think it was around 500.000. Yeah, crazy numbers.
Or be grateful for western civilisation being saved.
Atleast add some authentic graphics..Lord of the rings! Lol
Istotnie, te początki urozmaicenia kulturowego nie wyglądają zachęcająco. Ale jeszcze wszyscy będziemy mówić po arabsku. Podziękujmy Unii Europejskiej za promowanie kultury arabskiej i imigracji. Naprawmy to, co spartaczył Sobieski i przyjmijmy te miliony muzułmanów do Europy. Będziemy cieszyć się milionami nowych meczetów i radosnym śpiewem muezzina w każdej miejscowości, jak również prawem szariatu. Przecież pani Merkel, była kanclerz Niemiec zaprosiła miliony muzułmanów do Europy, żeby naprawić krzywdę wyrządzoną muzułmanom pod Wiedniem. Brawo Unia Europejska! Islam górą! Cieszmy się i radujmy! Ponieważ żadna husaria już tego nie odwróci!
Historically, it is not the biggest cavalry attack, if you go back to Jenkis Khan there were bigger ones
False
If peasants on donkeys count, than maybe?
Very distracting to have visuals from other than relevant depictions of the battle (Chronicles of Narnia, Tolkien films, etc.). Stick with "The Siege" and the like.
The video contains many inappropriate sequences dated from times many hundred years before this battle: rubbish....
About 100 years later Austria "thanked" us by taking part in partitions of Poland. We will never forget.
When did Saracens, Medieval knights, Templars, Roundheads, Vikings, Riders of Rohan, one Hobbit and many many more fight? 1683! Yeehah! I do love sci fi! Just couldn't get past minute 3. Will someone let me know if Gandalf or George Custer saved Meriadoc???
Only in written history. Ask the Roman legions wiped out by our Sarmatian knights and Amazon women. Ask Cyrus the great and Darius the Great. There were much great cavalry charges even greater than mongol charges.
It's not even close to the largest cavalry charge... Think, there were entire armies, over 100.000 strong made up almost exclusively out of cavalry in moments in history.
Religion of peace til now
A remarkable topic ruined by the silly montage of unconnected battles from history and fantasy.
Mongol hoarde had 1 milion horses!
Mongol invasion dwarf any army in history of Europe
Congratulations. You have managed to mash up cavalry armor from over 500 years. Do you have any idea of what cavalry looked like in 1683? Apparently not.
biggest myth is the polish only nunbered 3000 out of a total of 18000 cavalry most of the rest were various germans and other europeans. the poles were at the front of the charge but they were not the whole charge.
Poles (!) had much, much more than 3000! There was around 20000 Polish on horses, not only winged Hussars
Why won't you say polish were not there and all this success was only because of german army? You will never change
What the videos show about the armored fist of the first Polish Republic is more of a parade than a combat value, not to mention tactics. And their tactics were amazing and unheard of at that time. It was the most beautiful, best, most effective and undefeated armored fist of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Poland (Lechistan) and Lithuania for 120 years. Both Poles and Lithuanians served in it, but only the richest, i.e. princes and their sons, and the richest nobility, because only they could afford the enormous costs of equipment and incredibly expensive horses. And the commander did not address them as soldiers... but as comrades, because they were equal to the commander in terms of social status and wealth, as they bought everything except the copy (6.2 m long) with their own money. The infantry, however, consisted of peasants and townspeople and the commander called them "soldiers."
For Winged Hussars, the only things that mattered were: God, Honor, Homeland. Their motto was the belief that "if the sky fell on us, they would support it with their trees (copies). They were characterized by courage, brotherhood, sacrifice. She was the best and hard cavalry of her time, and their history went down in history, as can be said. testify to the statements of people famous in their era:
-ABOUT! If I had a ride like that, I would camp with my infantry this year
in Constantinople.-Gustav Adolf-king of the Swedes.
Winning battles of the Polish Hussars (Winged Hussars)
In each of the battles fought by the Winged Hussars, the enemy outnumbered them and outgunned them. Victory: Kleck-1506y.-vict./Orsza-1514y.-vict./Obertyn-1531y.-vict./Lubiszew-1577y.-vict./Mohylew -1581y.-vict./Byczyna-1588y.-vict./Curtea de Argesz-1600y.-vict./Kieś-1601y.-vict./Kokenhausen 1601y.-vict./Revel-1602y.-vict./Rakvere- 1603y.-vict./Biały Kamień-1604y.-vict./KIRCHOLM-1605Y.-VICT./Udycz-1606y.-vict./Gawia-1609y.-vict./KŁUSZYN-1610Y.-vict./Moskwa-1611y .-vict./Kropimojza-1621-vict./CHOCIM-1621y.-vict./Gniew-1626y.-vict./Trzciana-1629y.-vict./Smolensk-1633y.-vict./Ochmaów-1644y.-vict ./Beresteczko-1651y.-vict./Mohylew-1655y.-vict./Domany-1655y.-vict./Warka-1656y.-vict./Połonka-1660y.-vict./Kutyszcze-1660y.-vict./ Basia-1660y.-vict./CHOCIM-1673y-vict./Lviv-1675y.-vict./WIEDEŃ-1683y-VICTORY/Chodów-1694y-vict.
The Winged Hussars' tactic was to disperse and spread panic. For this purpose, they formed only two lines. In the first line, on the left end, there was a captain and a lieutenant on the right.
Hussars were not just Hussars. It was a real military organization. It was the armored fist of the Republic of Poland. Perfectly trained militarily, physically and on horseback, the best military equipment for those times, selected horses that were trained and treated equally with the rider. There was an immediate penalty for selling, killing or injuring a hussar horse.
A hussar horse had to undergo two years of training and its sale was punishable by death. I will add that our riding was the best in the world at that time, as was their equipment. But for information, a hussar horse was able to cover distances at a fast pace for 3 days without interruption. It was a horse crossed with our ancestors of the tarpan and the present Lesser Poland horse with Arabian horses and attention! Akhal-Teke horses, which made these horses extremely durable and fast. Our hussars are an example for other nations. The hussar horse was worth the entire village, it was very valuable and was not afraid of anything.