The Ottoman Sultan Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa besieged Vienna with an army of 500,000 soldiers, 1,000 cannons, 40,000 horses, 20,000 camels, 20,000 elephants, 20,000 buffalo, 20,000 mules, 20,000 cows and bulls, 10,000 sheep and goats, 100,000 sacks of corn, 50,000 sacks of coffee, 100 wives and concubines, and 25,000 tents. All of Europe rushed to defend Vienna: the English, Spanish, Germans, Ukrainians, Poles, Genoese, Venetians, Tuscans, Piedmontese, and Papal States. On September 12, the Western armies put the Ottomans to flight. The Poles are led by the heroic Jan Sobiesky who shouts: “Soldiers, it is not just Vienna that we must save! It is Christianity, the Idea of Christianity! Soldiers, let us fight for the Virgin of Czestochowa!”
