This greatly helped in creating enough time for a relief force to arrive in September. However the defenders knocked down large trees to help bolster the old palisade delaying the Ottoman attack. In order to take the city the Ottomans mined tunnels under the city walls to blow them up using large amounts of Black Powder. Kara Mustafa Pasha who led the Ottoman force ordered his men to dig trenches towards to the city to help protect his troops from the defenders cannons as they advanced. On the 14 th July 1683 the Ottoman army of 150,000 men laid siege to Vienna. In this treaty it promised that the Holy Roman Empire would support Poland if the Ottomans attacked Krakow and in return the Polish would come if Vienna was attacked. The Holy Roman Empire made an alliance with the Polish in 1683 called the Treaty of Warsaw. The Ottomans repaired and established roads and bridges leading to the Holy Roman Empire as well as moving cannons and ammunition into the Balkans. The Ottoman Empire wanted to take the City of Vienna for its control over the Black Sea to Western Europe, Southern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean to Germany’s trade routes. This battle is largely marked as the end of the Ottoman invasions into Europe. The battle of Vienna is one of the most significant battles in European History, it took place in September 1683 between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Holy Roman Empire and Habsburg Hungry against the Ottoman Empire.
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