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September 12, 1683
The Battle of Vienna on September 12, 1683
In the summer of sixteen eighty-three the largest army the Ottomans ever sent into Europe stood at the gates of Vienna — and the city was days from falling. Then came the largest cavalry charge in history, and the tide of an empire turned.
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