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The Battle of Pavia, was a battle between a Spanish-Imperial army under the nominal command of Charles de Lannoy plus the garrison of Pavia, commanded by Antonio de Leyv and the French army under the ...

Battle at Kahlenberg

History; European history

The Battle of Kahlenberg on 12 September 1683 ended the second Turkish siege of Vienna. A German-Polish relief force under the command of the Polish King John III. Sobieski defeated the Turks. The ...

Battle of Turin

History; European history

In 1700 died Charles II of Hapsburg, King of Spain, childless. The Spaniards chose Philip of Anjou as successor, a Frenchman, what led to the reoccurrence of the Franco-Habsburg power struggle in ...

Siege of Belgrade 1717

History; European history

The siege of Belgrade in 1717 was a siege during the Austro-Venetian-Ottoman war, which took place from 1714 to 1718 and after the Austrian victory of Petrovaradin. The siege ended on August 17, 1717 ...

Battle of Gravelines

History; European history

It was a battle between France on one side and Spain and England on the other, fought on 13 July 1558 at Gravelines, near Calais, France. It was decisive victory by the Spanish forces, led by ...

Battle of Saint Gotthard

History; European history

The Battle of Saint Gotthard was a battle between between an Habsburg army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, Wolfgang Julius von Hohenlohe, Prince Leopold of Baden, Georg Friedrich of Waldeck and an ...

Battle of Mohács (1687)

History; European history

The Battle of Mohács was a battle between the forces of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV, commanded by the Grand-Vizier Sari Süleyman Paşa, and the forces of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, commanded by ...