WINGED HUSSARS // Historian Reaction // Sabaton 

King Jan III Sobieski

He wrote that in letter to his wife

@@lUPIVULTUS to Pope for sure.

Good Ole Jan III Sobiesky really going for the title of Best Catholic at times.

Turkish Eye Witness : "They look like storm clouds, bristilling in armour and weapons, it was like a tide of black pitch rolling down the hill crushing and burning everything in its path."

Bwhaha yeah

Poland: Hey Turkey wanna hear a joke? Turkey: Yeah? Poland: Vienna Turkey: I don't get it Poland: AND YOU NEVER WILL! I Feel like it's more Suitable.

Haha

Battle of Hodowo (June 11, 1694) - the battle between the Polish and Tatar troops during the Polish-Turkish war (1683-1699). Win by the Polish side thanks to the hussars' charge, despite the power ratio of approximately 100: 1 (approx. 40 thousand Tatars against 400 Poles)💪💪💪

I am from poland polska!!

Battle of Hodowo (June 11, 1694) - the battle between the Polish and Tatar troops during the Polish-Turkish war (1683-1699). Win by the Polish side thanks to the hussars' charge, despite the power ratio of approximately 100: 1 (approx. 40 thousand Tatars against 400 Poles)

One of the places where they were granted land i know is in Kruszyniany and in Bohoniki in podlaskie voivodeship. They have nice mosque and are very friendly people.

Jestem z podlasia. Bardzo dobrze znam historie tatarów. Ci akurat nie byli przyjazni. U ich boków walczyli również tatarzy polscy którzy odmówili posłuszeństwu dla naszego króla.

We still have them in Poland

Indeed. I am from eastern side of Poland and they do live here. They are actually mostly of asian background. And as someone pointed out they are not a cause of trouble. Or rather they cause the amount of trouble everyone does. They were usually employed in form of light cavalry which was good at scouting and horse archery. Its actually ironic really. Poland is quite catholic in comparison to other european countries and the eastern part of Poland is the most catjolic of all and yet there are muslims in the backyard and noone seems to care. A mystery truly.

This is a fact. Turkey refused any diplomatic relations without Polish emmisaries. Also Syria helped Poles a lot with refugees even to the point of state paid Polish shools. There is a saying in Polish "you know who your friends are at the time of need". Rough translation but i hope U get a gist of it. We remember and there may come a time to help them. We will always, even after being erased from maps, be there for you. Your Phoenix friends. :)

Tolkien doesn't like this view of research. If you look like it. You can say Rohan are Turks because some names so similar like Eomer(Ömer) and Turks was so strong cavalry and womans even can fight in war like Eowyn. If you look then they are wearing light or medium armor like Old Turks cavalry.

@@-Tufix- Eowyn couldn't fight there, she had to hide under helmet.

@@-Tufix- except for cataphracts, all cavalry units wore light armor, that's not an ottoman speciality edit: oh and btw, the name Éomer just translates to "horse-famous" from old english. and looking at rohans architecture, it's clearly a mixture of old nordic/saxon building styles. literally nothing of the rohirrim has anything to do with the ottomans.

@@Seygem I can accept some of these information but I can't find Éomer translate from google. Probably it is LOTR language. I couldn't find Oxford research too. If you can find please send it to me. Yeah some of cavalry army wearing leather armor. But if you look Polish army when fighting with ottoman they are obviously wearing heavy armor(hussary). So I think @halynywiatr ,s information has'nt a base stone. We can talk about a lot of thing on this race for example rohan loving horse and using bow when riding horse. If you look before ottoman you will see Old Turkish Hans using same way to fight and living with horse. On the other hand While Tolkien was alive, he openly said that he did not like such races to be compared to societies (for example, the Haradrim resembled Indians) and that they were drawn to this side in his work. In other words, it would be absurd for us to discuss this topic while trying to explain that these events are all fiction, even though the Author of the subject we are talking about on the basis of the product does not accept (Lotr states that these works are far from the real world behind his books, so there is a space for people to escape and leave them alone). As a matter of fact, I wanted to point out in my previous comment that if you could pull this event this way, I could pull it this way too. I may not have been able to express myself because of my English. never mind. However, unless the author of a fictional work says so, I get angry when you write such things yourself and say there are researches and I can't find them on google.

@@-Tufix- To be honest, i have no idea how you missed this, considering these are among the very first hits on google: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89omer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohan_(Middle-earth)

I second that 🇵🇱 💪

I thid that......

the polish are the strongest, i visited for a weightlifting event and i love your country, the people are great.

Another polish person I see this is what I think💂🏻‍♀️💂🏻‍♀️💂🏻‍♀️💂🏻‍♀️💂🏻‍♀️💂🏻‍♀️💂🏻‍♀️💂🏻‍♀️💂🏻‍♀️💂🏻‍♀️💂🏻‍♀️💂🏻‍♀️💂🏻‍♀️💂🏻‍♀️💂🏻‍♀️💂🏻‍♀️💂🏻‍♀️💂🏻‍♀️💂🏻‍♀️💂🏻‍♀️💂🏻‍♀️💂🏻‍♀️💂🏻‍♀️💂🏻‍♀️💂🏻‍♀️🪖🪖🪖🤴🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪

When i hear the Winged Hussars,i Remember,In September,Then The Wing Hussars Arrive!

I agree! Awesome song!🤘

Hey im from Rome

No, it's about the crusades

@@connorbosley4431 this is directly from Sabaton’s website.

@@DillanWill i know that, it's a meme

Don’t blame them they look like they a biblical army you shall see on judgement day chasing demons or something

Some believed the winged hussars were direct emissaries of god I dont blame them for fearing them

@@painvillegaming4119 It's also fucking nuts when you realize that one Cavalry is expensive, and they are often trained to hell and back And two, the best cavalry is fielded by the richest, meaning the best cavalry is most likely just small fraction of what's about to come

@@anadaere6861 honestly money we’ll spend

@@painvillegaming4119 Yeah cavalry is stupid good for a alot of the daily shit they can do you only need a few mounted knights to deal with a lot of untrained rebels, that said, they are high risk high reward units A bad call and they are fucked

Yes, you neeeded to be noble to afford a horse and armor. Actually at least 2 horses. Specially bred and trained, one would cost a small village. But hussars were no kings. Usually second, third sons. First born son would inherit the land and provide for the brothers that defended it.

@@Handrak : Selling a hussar horse outside Poland was punishable by death. The horses, that were actually quite small, but capable of extreme turns, were extremely expensive and their training was brutal and a well-guarded secret.

Pretty sure that's not the lyrics. "Army on wings."

@@lucascampos5498 its “an army of kings”

@@-_chira_- Indeed.

No he never said that Rohirrim inspired by Winged Hussars. It is just internet myth.

Thanks Tommy! Glad to have you.

This is literally me right now as well

I like the joke that writers have to lower their numbers from what actually happened in history. Because no one would be able to "suspend their disbelief" in fiction if the numbers were as high as what actually happened in history.

And they were actually past their prime in 1683 as gunpowder weapons were getting more and more powerfull. But still deadly.

Tatars fought on both sides of the battle. The Polish Tatars fought for Poland, the Crimean Tatars fought for their own country (which was allied with the Ottomans). Tatars were always a small minority in Poland. But we also always had a disproportionately high impact on the Polish-Lithuanian military.

​@@1985watanabe to prawda często odwiedzam wioskę tatarską w Polsce uwielbiam tatarskie jedzenie i opowieść o życiu Tatarów w świątyni muzułmańskiej. Taka ciekawostką Polska kawaleria Ułańska była stworzona na wzór kawalerii tatarskiej walczącej u boku Polaków dlatego nie miała chorągwi tylko tatarsku bończuk biało czerwono zielony czyli polskie barwy narodowe z kolorem zielonym proroka.

Turkish Eye Witness : "They look like storm clouds, bristilling in armour and weapons, it was like a tide of black pitch rolling down the hill crushing and burning everything in its path."

Bo my płacy dzięki Bogu wierzymy w Boga

I feel like, at least here in the US, so much of what we're taught of history is from a Western perspective. There is so much rich history in Eastern Europe that is lesser known but deserves to be known much better.

@@VloggingThroughHistory That's true but history hasn't been kind to Poland on either continent.

Our politicians are enforcing that cultural shift anyway sadly.

Not sure how it can be "under-rated" considering how often it's held up as having saved Europe from Ottoman conquest. Which is absurd, the Ottoman Empire of 1683 was stagnant and had fallen behind its European rivals. Weakness that was demonstrated by how the Ottomans lost the Great Turkish War so thoroughly that they had to cede Hungary to Austria, a territorial loss that was a first in Ottoman history and would have been unthinkable during e.g. the time of Suleiman the Magnificent. Also, most of the relief army weren't from Poland, but from various German states. The winged hussars just stole the show.

Last Battle, Hearts of Iron, Smoking Snakes, Ghost Division as well

If you check previous Sabaton videos, you will see me telling him to react that song. And I'm here again to tell that but you are here first.

Then the winged hussars arrived! I just had to do it... :D

agreed, as a kiwi the ANZAC story is always a important story to tell

@@kieranjohnston8177 I play "Cliffs of Gallipoli" every ANZAC day along with "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" and a few others.

Bóg zawsze po stronie silniejszych

@@jn1205 W tym przypadku Bóg był po stronie słabszych. Silniejsi byli Turcy - to była 300 tys. armia!

czyli w 39 po stronie Hitlera był? @@jn1205

@@jn1205 10 lat wcześniej pod Chocimiem z 30 tysiącami ludzi i 65 działami zaatakował 40-tysięczną armię ze 120 działami za umocnieniami polowymi i też ją pobił. Zresztą znawcy wojskowości to tę bitwę uważają za największe zwycięstwo Sobieskiego.

@@keriusz1 może z obsługą tzw ciury obozowe , kobiety i dzieci, chociaż i tak przesadzone liczby ... co rok w opowieściach przybywało 1000 ludzi. Siły były wyrównane 90 tys żołnierzy tureckich , 80 tys .austro- niemieckich i polskich. Zadecydowała technika i przytłaczająca liczba kawalerii niemiecko polskiej ok 25 tys ...Turcy mieli ok. 5 tys jazdy...

Ej xd mam taki sam avatar ale na telefonie mam takie etui

Na diskordzie i na steamie xd

Live version from Woodstock Poland 2012!

@@kilian8498 jak już chciałeś napisać komentarz to mogłeś się chociaż postarać wykrztusić trochę angielskiego

@@jgnatiususdragneel8491 xd ale pisałem to chłopa z polski byczq

''We Came, We Saw, God rescued'' Stop Distorting.

Turkish Eye Witness : "They look like storm clouds, bristilling in armour and weapons, it was like a tide of black pitch rolling down the hill crushing and burning everything in its path."

@_𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜_ lmao... 1 on 1 hussars kick ass. Nobody in history beat a 2 on 1...

It’s so great. I can listen to The Last Stand all day

The last Battle is just so underrated

@@sebastianarnold948 same!

@@p3chv0gel22 100% agreed

Hearts of Iron and Smoking Snakes!

Now it just sounds like a bunch of Hoosiers not Winged Hussars

Many countries have or have had regiments of Hussars, and pronunciation is dependent on the native language. I'm English, so I use the English pronunciation, as I would expect of any English speaker. The important thing is to convey the correct meaning, so the pronunciation of the language used should be preferred over that used by the country or language of origin. I'm afraid that is a large part of what translation involves, old chap. English words are not just mispronounced but misspelt when translated into USian - the only real problem is that they still call it English. Definitely not something to get your panties in a bunch over.

Long live Poland bro

@@phillee2814 Also the word isn't even Polish in origin but likely either Serbian or Hungarian and it has likely changed pronunciation a lot over the hundreds of years of the words existence.

It is pronounced the same way you would say "You thieving, womanizing, bastard get your hands of my wife, daughter and booze and get of my property." I'm a a former hussar trust me, but not with anything lootable.

Not to mention that Poland in the years preceding this battle had fought its own series of wars against the Ottomans. Poland de facto lost the 1672-1676 war against the Ottomans, losing Podolia. In short: Poland-Lithuania had many reasons to oppose the Ottomans, seeing some ravaged countryside in upper Hungary was probably the least of them.

@@1985watanabe revenge is a dish best served cold

In Polish there has been kind of split in pronunciacion - winged hussars kept original somewhat soft "s" (so is husaria, husarze, husarzy), while hussars known as napoleonic light cavalry are spelled with strong "z" (huzarzy, huzarów). But the root is the same, straight from Hungarian :)

@@Krzysztof.l.Polak.84 interesting, thanks for telling me

When it comes to the hussars, Hungary had a great influence. The Hussars was founded by the Polish King Stefan (Istvan) Batory who was Hungarian, the first units of Hussars consisted of Serbian mercenaries.

Hussar is of hungarian origin :)

Actually this quote in Ottoman source Fındıklılı Mehmet Efendi describes black clothed Austrian and German army, not Polish one.

Cheers from Polska my comrade! 🤙😎🤙🇵🇱🇵🇱

I seriously doubt that the mongols with the massive armies mostly cavalry didn't charge with more than 18000 men at some point. Not discrediting this charge but the records during the mongol era was not as good as it was in 17th century Europe.

whaattt :D you should be crazy to saying this Mongol, Hun and Göktürk armies were the best land armies in the world

@@eddiewinehosen6665 I don't think their economy was strong enough to support 18k horses back then

@@RmRoyalflush if you have the ability to read, then do that

Sorry but 99% there fist song was shadows

not 90% but 99.9% of the songs. they have a few about metal and a few covers.

i wish Sabaton had shown a bit more of hte surroundings, rather than just focusing on the 3,000 winged Hussars...

The polish-Lithuanian commonwealth had endless issues.

This would be the last major action the Poland -Lithuanian Commonwealth every did. Sadly after this amazing charge the Commonwealth weakened and declined.

Wait, here in Hungary we are teached that we gloriously fought the Ottomans till death and we didn’t give up eve; when only northern Hungary remained

Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth was kille off by their own nobility, wich was egotistical idiots 100% of the time. Jan should have purged them and restored hereditary monarchy. Poland-Lithuania would probalby still be around if he had.

Thats interesting, quick question: Which side? The Polish, Hungarian or Turk?

@@erichvondonitz5325 Poland - hussars.

@@magdalenalucia1683 Nice, bless your ancestor

Poland saved Europe from Islamization in 1683 in the same way it saved Europe from Bolshevism in 1920. That is, in the imagination of Polish patriots only. Neither of the time was the invading power in any position to conquer all of Europe.

powiedz to Hitlerowi​@@anderskorsback4104

From what I remember he send that as a message to the pope after the battle was won right?

@@damianworek4444 yup

A real hero who should be remembered. Sadly in the U.K. not many people know of this great man.

Horses are expensive...War horses cost even more.

Not necessarily, as it was not the tactic of hussars to show off their numbers. They charged in extremely close formations in lines with large rifts between them to avoid enemy fire and only formed an actual unit right before hitting the enemy lines. They spread as wide as possible right before smashing into the enemy line and that must have looked mighty scary. The tactic was to fan out and pepper the enemy pikemen with pistol fire (each hussar carried one, usually two pistols under their saddles) and then smash into them with extremely long pikes, that were attached to the saddles at the other end putting the entire mass of the horse behind the stab. Nasty business. One of the hussars wrote in his memoirs, that he carried five Swedes on his pike before it broke off.

I hope to visit your beautiful country someday!

Same here, great videos

@@VloggingThroughHistory thank you

I came i saw i counquered was first said by Julis Cesar

@@karolrazniewski2006 everyone knows that, read the comment again. It was said by someone else after, just slightly different

Had he lost would he still give god the credit ?

You did up untill Russians and Habsburgs had the bigger guns. After that, even Ottomans couldnt stop them from tearing Poland apart. Tho they protested in every opportunity they got. Like every time when they had great meetings with ambassadors and sultan asked "where's the Polish ambassador" loudy enough to Russians to hear. Apparently Poland didint forget this. That's why Polish prime minister said "after a long wait, Polish ambassador is finally here" when he visited Turkey after a long while back in 2001 or 2002 i think.

You want a discussion on the reasons behind the partitions? 1. Political corruption by our neighbors. 2. Underpaid army, underpaid officials... which just made them easier target for corruption. 3. Poland "died of civic rights". Low taxes, high freedom for the voting citizens, a functional parliament... makes for a nice country to live in, but a disadvantage when facing these highly centralized, highly taxed absolutist behemoths like Russia and Austria. Low taxes meant a small army and underpaid officials.. see point 1 and 2. 4. Diplomacy. Austria, Prussia and Russia managed to act in concert, while we failed to brake that unholy alliance up. We also failed to gain noteworthy allies. 5. It was a "bad place on the map" to be at. Spain or Turkey was going though a much worse crisis then we were at the time, but they simply didn't have such ruthlessly efficient neighbors to take advantage of them. 6. Poor past political decisions. We have not supported the enemies of Russia (like the Crimean Khanate or the Ottomans) when they were fighting against Russia. Then when push came to shove, we had to face Catherine the Great alone, there was nobody else left in the east to help us.

Yes I have read that before. I believe Polish have much to be proud of. I am American and have good Polish American friends. Many Polish Americans fought hard and dangerous battles for the USA, many gave their lives for my country. We are lucky to have them. Poland is a brave country. History made them born with a sword in one hand and a hammer in the other,(for rebuilding their cities, I think) Poland has had some nasty neighbors! Long live Poland!

Not sure if just kidding but Im waking up for the last 10+ years to rocky theme. And it started coz I was sleeping at job and set this alarm to jump up and run up the stairs. Still lovin it and only downside is on odd occasion when i hear rocky theme my adrenaline jumps up and im super alert. My point is find some ridiculous po culture melody with some poaitive connections and u wont hate it after few weeks and will always wake u up.

And a great cast. Too bad to watch a good film I have to watch it with English subtitles since only trash comes out of Hollywood now.

Mylisz się ten nieprzyjemny hałas proporce na czubkach 6 m lanc.

Well, factors for their decline were many, being very expensive troops to upkeep was one of those. But main reasons were growing political chaos in the country, collapse of economy and outdated organization of the military force as such. In fact, husaria (winged hussars, but without wings and armour) was officially kept `till 1772 (may be a bit wrong) and than evolved into so called National Cavalry - formation with more socio-political background than military. In better conditions I suppose, that winged hussars would evolve in something resembling western cuirassiers of middle XVIII century, heavy break-through cavalry.

You mean when the Holy roman Empire send a relief force to aid and safe Viena, oh and some poles where also there. Oh and the commander that won this Battle was Charles off Lorraine you know the one who acctuly fought and won the Battle for a day until Sobieski did anything. But at least Sobieski managed to enter a defenceless Camp and lose controll over his troops so the Ottoman Army was not routet, witch was his one Job.

In my opinion, wing was not used in battles, or when they where, it was rare. Kind of not the hussars style, not to big help in battle now is it? Could obstruct movement of a rider on horse, could slow them down to lean backwards on horse to dodge a blow, not practical at all. And the noise...myth and legend, that it was created by wings. It was them flags on lances, that where 1.5 meter long. As a stationary rider with lance up, it was hangin from top to horse head. Hussars where a killing machines, polish spartans. I will say, that even horses where like spartans. The horses that was fighting, where in 7-14y old, since small they where trained in art of war, same as riders. Breed to mix was some kind of eastern horse, belive it was named "tarpan" that was not afraid of gunshots( he was just stopping, not getting panicked), and a western heavy horse. The result-fast, agile, but strong and tall well trained medieval tank, who was going about 40km/h with nearly 100kg on itself. They could pass some stupid 200km, then straight away to top performance in battle. Madness. For selling horse outside of commonwealth was fines, repossesion of land, "tower"- todays jail, or-if you sold to muslims DEATH. Another thing is tactics in battle, too much to write, if You like Hussars go for it, and search, You will not regret. Take care.

Yes he was

They did not... for fucks sake, they did not... to quote from wikipedia: Viennese garrison: 11,000 soldiers[9] + 5,000 volunteers[9] 312 guns but only 141 operational[9] (strength on 10 September 1683) Relief force: 47,000 Germans and Austrians with some 112 guns[10] 27,000 Poles with 28 guns[11] it wasn't just 18,000... the cav charge was 3,000 Winged Hussars, + other polish AND GERMAN Cavalry. When the cav charge committed, the Ottoman infantry had already been battered by Imperial, Bavarian etc. and Polish Infantry.

@@undertakernumberone1 Jeez, alright mate I was going by what I'd heard from the video. But good to know the actual numbers, thanks.

@@azarth8805 yeah, which is where the reaction came from, because a lot of people only listen to "AND THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!" and don't bother reading up on it. Wasn't personal, just frustration from people not bothering to even take a short look at Wikipedia but then going "The Winged Hussars won that battle alone!"

@@undertakernumberone1 It's all good dude, I do the same sometimes.

@@undertakernumberone1 Still outnumbered.

Actually hussars were only nobles, but besides that ur right.

Tak jak chłop pisał, husaria składała się wyłącznie z szlachty i to raczej nie z gołoty.

@@sabotuerelthendo2578 To be precise, winged hussars were formed of nobles, and usually, since those nobles were rich they could afford to arm one or two of his close guards to join hussars as well. So, the winged hussars weren't only nobles, but as well "bodyguards" of those nobles, sometimes nobles themselves, but sometimes not.

Death from above also because they were attacking down from the Kallenberg mountain.

The Polish had multiple types of nobles, so about 1 of 10 Polish males were technically members of the nobility at that time.

And there was a designated officer at the back that would shoot deserters. There wasnt many, in most cases u had to be rich and it was great honor but if in front of enemy u had second thoughts, welp bad luck i guess.

price of a mile is excellent

They also split when they were used, so they used warhammers and sabers to keep the attack up as well.

They were hollow designed to break off in the enemy. After which the 2 swords came into play.

Yeah, i belive it was Jan Chryzostom Paszek, could spell it wron a bit. Sometimes he was going over the top with his stories. Battle of Polonka, with moscoviets, this is where he written it. Six is kind of too much, according to historians, but 2 or 3 was a common viev, when fithing with enemies with thin armor or without. And then get back for another lance, regroup and strike, then for another lance...untill there was no horses left :) take care

@@mariuszedward3469 I knew I Got some things wrong. I often forget names, and dates, but I remember details. And to think I'm getting my Masters Degree in military history this year hah (also, I'm polish, just replying in English for Clarity's sake)

@@SzczepanZZ good luck with degree, and read more about hussars, it's just military masterpiece. I've menaged to finish podstawowka :) take care, and horse health for You !!

Pretty sure it's just his accent

Once you hear it you will never unhear it 401

@@bismarckandthekriegsmarine9711 You're right! It's in 40:1 too, "Buried in history"!

Also panzer battalion

@@bismarckandthekriegsmarine9711 Ha! You've studied this more than me then, obviously! LOL

Nah. While their charges may be inspired by the Winged Hussars, the nation of Rohan is pretty much Tolkien's power fantasy of an alternative history Anglo-Saxon kingdom that got into cavalry warfare and thus resisted the Norman conquest.

Agreed!

Polska była potęgą i będzie bo my wierzymy w boga