Battle of Mohács (1687)
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| Battle of Mohács (1687) | |||||||
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| Part of Great Turkish War | |||||||
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| Combatants | |||||||
| Austria, Hungary, Bavaria |
Ottoman Turks | ||||||
| Commanders | |||||||
| Duke of Lorraine Maximilian II Emanuel |
Suleyman Pasha (Grand Vizier) |
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| Strength | |||||||
| 60,000[1] | No figures available, but superior to the Habsburgs | ||||||
| Casualties | |||||||
| 500 - 1,000 | ~10,500 | ||||||
The Second Battle of Mohács was fought between Sultan Mehmed IV's Ottoman Turks and Emperor Leopold I's Austrian Habsburgs' forces commanded by Charles of Lorraine.
The battle was a crushing defeat for the Ottomans, destroying their ambitions to expand further into Europe. After the battle, the Turkish army revolted and Sultan Mehmed IV was deposed. For a year the Ottoman Empire was paralysed, and Leopold's forces were poised to capture Belgrade and penetrate deep into the Balkans.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Chandler: A Guide to the Battlefields of Europe, p.251. All statistics taken from Chandler.
[edit] References
- Chandler, David. A Guide to the Battlefields of Europe. Wordsworth Editions Ltd, (1998). ISBN 1-85326-694-9
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