hello Planeteers
On this day, some 432 years ago Polish King Jan (John) 3rd Sobieski, commander in chief of the Christian Allied armies (although the Polish Army had some Moslem Tatars in their light cavalry banners), defeated the Moslem Ottoman Turkish (although they did have some Christian units from Serbia, Rumania and Bulgaria there as well) army of vazir Kara Mustpha that had been besieging Vienna, the capital of the Habsburg Empire.
Hail to the valiant and curageous warriors and soldiers who won inmortal fame and eternal admiration on that day!
This was the Polish winged hussars victory, albeit the Polish infatry and dragons cleared the field and vineyards for the winged hussars to make their fabulous charge (with reiters and pancerni in tow - my own ancestor, Jan Oziemski, was but a pancerni banner leader who did take part in this battle
).
there are some sites where you could see figurines depicting winged hussars etc.
first is the website of Polish sculptor/painter Maciej 'Koncerz' Pawlica
http://republika.pl/koncerz1/page1-polish-glowna-a.html
second website is a combination of various Russian figure makers, look especially at the Vityaz and Granada in the medieval Europe section -mounted figures (why 17th century winged hussars would be placed in the medieval Europe section it baffels me )
http://www.soldiers-russia.com/thematic_contents.htm#europe
then Polish figures manufacturer M-model http://www.m-model.pl/glownaeng.html has a nice selection of the winged hussars and pancerni etc
and others - references http://www.geocities.com/rik_fox/husaria/museum.html
http://www.wingedhussar.org/husaria.html
http://www.cavhooah.com/polish.htm
in Polish but the best website on husaria best pictures etc http://www.jest.art.pl/
enjoy and again salute to victors and vanquished!
Dario
On this day, some 432 years ago Polish King Jan (John) 3rd Sobieski, commander in chief of the Christian Allied armies (although the Polish Army had some Moslem Tatars in their light cavalry banners), defeated the Moslem Ottoman Turkish (although they did have some Christian units from Serbia, Rumania and Bulgaria there as well) army of vazir Kara Mustpha that had been besieging Vienna, the capital of the Habsburg Empire.
Hail to the valiant and curageous warriors and soldiers who won inmortal fame and eternal admiration on that day!
This was the Polish winged hussars victory, albeit the Polish infatry and dragons cleared the field and vineyards for the winged hussars to make their fabulous charge (with reiters and pancerni in tow - my own ancestor, Jan Oziemski, was but a pancerni banner leader who did take part in this battle
).there are some sites where you could see figurines depicting winged hussars etc.
first is the website of Polish sculptor/painter Maciej 'Koncerz' Pawlica
http://republika.pl/koncerz1/page1-polish-glowna-a.html
second website is a combination of various Russian figure makers, look especially at the Vityaz and Granada in the medieval Europe section -mounted figures (why 17th century winged hussars would be placed in the medieval Europe section it baffels me
)http://www.soldiers-russia.com/thematic_contents.htm#europe
then Polish figures manufacturer M-model http://www.m-model.pl/glownaeng.html has a nice selection of the winged hussars and pancerni etc
and others - references http://www.geocities.com/rik_fox/husaria/museum.html
http://www.wingedhussar.org/husaria.html
http://www.cavhooah.com/polish.htm
in Polish but the best website on husaria best pictures etc http://www.jest.art.pl/
enjoy and again salute to victors and vanquished!
Dario
