Suleiman I's campaign of 1529
Hungarian campaign of Suleiman | |||||||||
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Part of the Ottoman-Habsburg wars | |||||||||
![]() "The Great Gun", a 1518 allegorical representation by Albrecht Dürer of the Turkish menace for the German lands. | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
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Strength | |||||||||
120,000 soldiers[1] (including 12,000 Janissaries)[2] 20,000 camels 300 guns 6,000 Hungarian horsemen[2] | |||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
20,000 dead (soldiers and civilians)[2] | 40,000 dead[2] |
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- Mohács (1526)
- Hungarian campaign (1527–28)
- Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War (1527–1593)
- Hungary (1529)
- Vienna (1529)
- Little Wars in Hungary
- (1529–1533) (1540–1547) (1551–1562) (1565–1568)
- Győr (1577)
- Bicske (1578)
- Long War (1593–1606)
- Bocskai uprising (1604–1606)
- Austro-Turkish War (1663–64)
- Great Turkish War (1683–1699)
- Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718)
- Russo-Turkish War (1735–1739)
- Austro-Turkish War (1788–91)
Mediterranean
- Cephalonia (1500)
- Balearics (1501)
- 1st Algiers (1516)
- Tlemcen (1518)
- 2nd Algiers (1519)
- 3rd Algiers (1529)
- Formentera (1529)
- Cherchell (1531)
- Coron (1533–1534)
- 1st Tunis (1534)
- 2nd Tunis (1535)
- Mahón (1535)
- Preveza (1538)
- Castelnuovo (1539)
- Girolata (1540)
- Alborán (1540)
- 4th Algiers (1541)
- Nice (1543)
- 1st Mostaganem (1543)
- Lipari (1544)
- Naples (1544)
- 2st Mostaganem (1547)
- Cullera (1550)
- Mahdia (1550)
- 1st Gozo (1551)
- Tripoli (1551)
- Ponza (1552)
- Corsica (1553–1559)
- Viste (1554)
- Béjaïa (1555)
- Oran (1556)
- Balearics (1558)
- 3rd Mostaganem (1558)
- Djerba (1560)
- Orán and Mers-el-Kébir (1563)
- 1st Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera (1563)
- Granada (1563)
- 2nd Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera (1564)
- Malta (1565)
- 3rd Tunis (1569)
- 2nd Gozo (1570)
- Lepanto (1571)
- Navarino (1572)
- 4th Tunis (1573)
- 5th Tunis (1574)
- Cadaqués (1575)
- Lanzarote (1586)
- Chios (1599)
- Hammamet (1605)
- Cape Corvo (1613)
- Malta (1614)
- Cape Celidonia (1616)
- Constantinople (1616)
Suleiman I's campaign of 1529 was launched by the Ottoman Empire to take the Austrian capital Vienna and thereby strike a decisive blow, allowing the Ottomans to consolidate their hold on Hungary. This was in response to Ferdinand I's daring assault on Ottoman Hungary.
March
Suleiman's march to Vienna was also an attempt to assist his vassal, John Szapolyai who claimed the throne of Hungary. Suleiman sent his army of 120,000 strong north on the 10 May 1529. His campaign was marked by speedy success, on September 8 Buda surrendered to the Ottomans and John Szapolyai was installed as King of Hungary. Suleiman then went further taking Esztergom, Tata, Komárom and Győr[1] so that much of Ferdinand I's gains the previous two years were lost. On 27 September, Suleiman reached Vienna.
Aftermath
The arrival of the Sultan's massive host in Central Europe caused much panic across Europe - Martin Luther, who had believed that the Ottomans were God's punishment against the sins of Christians[3] modified his views and wrote the book the War with the Turks in 1529 urging that "the scourge of God" should be fought with great vigour. However, when Suleiman began besieging Vienna it would prove to be his first and most decisive blunder.
Bibliography
- Clodfelter, M. (2017). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015 (4th ed.). McFarland. ISBN 978-0786474707.
- Madden, Thomas F. Crusades the Illustrated History. 1st ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan P, 2005
- Turnbull, Stephen. The Ottoman Empire 1326 - 1699. New York: Osprey, 2003.
Notes
- ^ a b Turnbull, Stephen. The Ottoman Empire 1326 - 1699. New York: Osprey, 2003. pg 50
- ^ a b c d Clodfelter 2017, p. 24.
- ^ Madden, Thomas F. Crusades the Illustrated History. 1st ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan P, 2005 pg