Sabaton - Winged Hussars (Lyrics English & Deutsch) - YouTube
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[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75zmIj_4LFQ[/embed] The Winged Hussars, led – as was the entire relief force sent by the Holy League to lift the siege of Vienna by the Ottoman Turks – by King Jan III Sobieski of Poland, was a relatively small force: 3,000 out of the 18,000 cavalry that swept down the Kahlenburg and through the Turkish lines, shattering and scattering them (they were an even smaller portion of the overall army of the Holy League, which consisted of some 70-80,000 troops, vs approximately 150,000 Ottomans). But they were the point of the spear, the elite heavy cavalry of all Europe at the time.
Sabaton - Winged Hussars (Lyrics English & Deutsch) - YouTube
Sabaton - Winged Hussars (Lyrics English …
Sabaton - Winged Hussars (Lyrics English & Deutsch) - YouTube
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75zmIj_4LFQ[/embed] The Winged Hussars, led – as was the entire relief force sent by the Holy League to lift the siege of Vienna by the Ottoman Turks – by King Jan III Sobieski of Poland, was a relatively small force: 3,000 out of the 18,000 cavalry that swept down the Kahlenburg and through the Turkish lines, shattering and scattering them (they were an even smaller portion of the overall army of the Holy League, which consisted of some 70-80,000 troops, vs approximately 150,000 Ottomans). But they were the point of the spear, the elite heavy cavalry of all Europe at the time.