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90,000 to 40,000 soldiers during 60 days of siege [3] 150,000 as of 10 September 1683, [4] down from 170,000 at the start of the campaign, according to documents on the order of battle found in Kara Mustafa's tent. [5] [Note 1] – alternative estimates. Approximately 150 cannons [6] Viennese garrison: 11,000 soldiers [11] + 5,000 volunteers [11]
The Armistice was agreed upon at 5:00 a.m. on 11 November 1918, to come into effect at 11:00 a.m. CET, [32] [33] for which reason the occasion is sometimes referred to as "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month". Signatures were made, depending on the source of information, between 5:00 a.m. and 5:45 a.m., CET.
' Erfurt latrine fall ') [1] [2] [3] occurred on 26 July 1184 in the German city of Erfurt. Henry VI , then the King of Germany , was conducting a Hoftag with local nobility on the second floor of a building.
1659 – The assault on Copenhagen by Swedish forces is beaten back with heavy losses. [8]1794 – First session of United States Senate opens to the public. [9]1808 – Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal.
[6] 1964 – Lyndon B. Johnson is elected to a full term as U.S. president, winning 61% of the vote and 44 states, while Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time, casting the majority of their votes for Lyndon Johnson. 1967 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins.
[6] 1683 – Coalition forces, including the famous winged Hussars, led by Polish King John III Sobieski lift the siege laid by Ottoman forces ahead of the Battle of Vienna. 1697 – Battle of Zenta: a major engagement in the Great Turkish War (1683–1699) and one of the most decisive defeats in Ottoman history. [7]
Exercise Mainbrace was part of a series of NATO exercise jointly commanded by Admiral McCormick and General Ridgeway during the Fall of 1952 involving 300,000 military personnel engaged in maneuvers from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean Sea. [6] [8] Two exercises were conducted by NATO's Allied Forces Southern Europe during the Fall of ...
A History of the Crusades, Volume II: The Later Crusades, 1189–1311 (Second ed.). Madison, Milwaukee, and London: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-04844-6. Spencer, Stephen J. "The Third Crusade in historiographical perspective" History Compass (June 2021) vol 19#7 online; Tyerman, Christopher (2006). God's War: A New History of the ...