[ExI] two years in the slammer for blammisphy?

spike spike66 at att.net
Tue May 11 21:29:33 UTC 2010


> > On 5/11/2010 2:21 PM, BillK wrote:
> > > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna>
> > > The Polish army defeated the Turks laying seige to Vienna.
> > >
> >
> >  Yes, using an enormous cavalry charge etc--not at all the 
> desperate activity of starving Viennese, which was presumably the event
150 
> > years earlier...  Damien
> 
> Well, yes it was, at least partly, I think.  :)
> 
> The siege 150 years earlier just petered out. The Turks ran 
> out of food, etc., got bored with it all and packed up and went home.
> ...
>
> I think Spike's memory of Michener's dramatic novel just got 
> a bit confused about whether the Poles were inside or outside 
> Vienna.  :) BillK


Ja, entirely possible.  It has been about 15 years since I read the book, so
I mighta messed up the story entirely.  The only reason I remembered the
year 1683 was that I was doing family research at the time, and we think
1683 was the year one branch of my family came to America, a small group of
Ashkenazi Jews, possibly from Poland or somewhere in eastern Europe.  It is
hard to say for sure.  

Michener's version of the story makes it sound like that city was primarily
Christians.  They looked out at the beseiging forces and judged it to be
severely underrepresented in Quakers and Seventh-Day Adventists.  Even in
those less politically correct times, they did not wish to offend the
delicate religious sensibilities of the invaders.  However, they may have
judged their chances with surrendering to the Quaker-challenged attackers to
be less than optimal, and so decided to counter attack instead.  The counter
attack turned into an unexpected defeat for the Quakerless hordes, who chose
to withdraw as I recall, rather than mess with any more Poles.

spike






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