Sept. 11 – Battle of Vienna, 1683

September 11 In 1683, over 138,000 Muslim Ottoman Turks surrounded Vienna, Austria. For two months they starved the 11,000 Hapsburg-Austrian defenders. Sultan Mehmed IV sent a message to Austrian King, Leopold I: “Await us in your residence…so we can decapitate you.” Secretly, Polish King Jan Sobieski, gathered 81,000 Polish, Austrian and German troops and on [...]

Belloc on the Re-emergence of Islam

It has always seemed to me possible, and even probable, that there would be a resurrection of Islam and that our sons or our grandsons would see the renewal of that tremendous struggle between Christian culture and for what has been for more than a thousand years its greatest opponent… “the suggestion that Islam may [...]

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