The Siege of Vienna: The Last Great Trial Between Cross & Crescent Book

Illustrations     vii
Maps and Places     ix
Some of the Principal Personages     x
The Origins of the Ottoman Attack
The Ottoman army enters Hungary     1
The Ottoman constitution     7
The defences of the Ottoman Empire     12
Ottoman policy in eastern Europe 1656-82     17
Kara Mustafa's objectives 1682-3     23
Leopold I and the City of Vienna
The Emperor and his court     27
The Hofburg and the Herrengasse     34
The fortifications of Vienna     36
The municipality of Vienna     40
Burghers and noblemen     41
The Defence of Habsburg Interests in Europe
The condition of the Empire     43
Money and men     53
Treaties with Bavaria and Hanover     63
Thokoly, and the treaty with Poland     66
The Threat to Vienna
The campaign in Hungary     73
Crisis in Austria     81
The flight from Vienna     90
The Siege
The first week     94
Counterscarp and ravelin     106
Outside the City
The Tartars     111
North of the Danube     113
The messengers to and from Vienna     119
The governmentat Passau     122
Warsaw, Dresden, Berlin and Regensburg
Sobieski's journey to the Danube     129
John George's journey to the Danube     141
Frederick William's refusal     145
Leopold defies Louis XIV     148
The Relief of Vienna
Leopold's journey down the Danube     151
The Turks close in on the city     153
The crossing of the Danube and the Wiener Wald     159
12 September, 1683     166
The Consequences of Victory
Rejoicing and disenchantment     174
The death of the Grand Vezir     179
Thokoly and Sobieski     182
The Holy Alliance of 1684     184
The fall of Luxembourg     188
Vienna after the siege     194
Notes and References     199
Index     219