Plan of the Battle of Vienna September 12, 1683. Poland. 1839.

Print of steel engraving titled „Plan de la Bataille de Vienne livrie le 12 Septembre 1683“.

Author unknown.

Engraved by Bigant.

From POR M. CARLOS FORSTER „Historia de la antigua Polonia“, Published by Imprenta del Guardia Nacional, Barcelona, 1839.

The Battle of Vienna is a battle that took place on 11 September 1683 after the imperial city of Vienna had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months. The battle was fought by the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in league with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Holy League) against the invading Muslim Ottoman Empire and chiefdoms of the Ottoman Empire, and took place at Kahlenberg Mountain near Vienna. The battle marked the first time Poland and the Holy Roman Empire had cooperated militarily against the Turks, and it is often seen as a turning point in history, after which "the Ottoman Turks ceased to be a menace to the Christian world". In the ensuing war that lasted until 1698, the Turks lost almost all of Hungary to the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I. The battle was won by the combined forces of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the latter represented only by the forces of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland. (The march of the Lithuanian army was delayed, and they reached Vienna after it had been relieved.) The Viennese garrison was led by Ernst Rüdiger Graf von Starhemberg, an Austrian subject of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I. The overall command was held by the senior leader, the King of Poland, John III Sobieski, who led the Polish forces.

Approx. image size 14 x 10, 2/21 x 12, 9 cm.

Condition: good.