{"id":47713,"date":"2019-04-09T04:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=47713"},"modified":"2020-08-15T17:18:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T21:18:23","slug":"siege-of-vienna-opening-bombardment-extra-history-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/04\/09\/siege-of-vienna-opening-bombardment-extra-history-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Siege of Vienna &#8211; Opening Bombardment &#8211; Extra History &#8211; #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MxZ9coEkd-U\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Extra Credits<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 6 Apr 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mehmed IV wanted to live up to, and even surpass, the legacy of his forefather Mehmed II, who had secured the Ottomans&#8217; inheritance to the Roman Empire through his conquest of Constantinople. So the current Mehmed decided to target Vienna &mdash; but Emperor Leopold dismissed these threats&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Over a hundred thousand Ottoman troops are heading for Vienna. Only 15,000 men defend the walls. They have only six days to prepare the city. How long can they hold? <\/p>\n<p>Join us on Patreon! <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/EHPatreon\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/EHPatreon<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extra Credits Published on 6 Apr 2019 Mehmed IV wanted to live up to, and even surpass, the legacy of his forefather Mehmed II, who had secured the Ottomans&#8217; inheritance to the Roman Empire through his conquest of Constantinople. So the current Mehmed decided to target Vienna &mdash; but Emperor Leopold dismissed these threats&#8230; Over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,7,370,5,11],"tags":[360,1095,47,1393,1279],"class_list":["post-47713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","category-middle-east","category-military","category-religion","tag-christianity","tag-fortification","tag-islam","tag-ottomanempire","tag-vienna"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-cpz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59630,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47713\/revisions\/59630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}