Talk:Battle of Khotyn (1621)

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[edit] This was not one of the first Christian victories over the Turks in a ground battle

This was not even close to one of the first significant Christian victories over the Turks in a ground battle. Hunyadi's victory over Mehmed the Conquerer at the Siege of Belgrade in 1456 was far more significant, as it decided the fate of pre-Isabella Europe. The Austrian victory at the first Siege of Vienna in 1529 was also more significant.

That is not to say that the Polish-Lithuanian victory at Khotyn was not significant. Along with the related Cossack raids and the fact that constant war on the Hungarian frontier had bled the Ottoman Empire for three quarters of a century, that is from their victory at Mohacs and subsequent defeat at Vienna until the turn of the 16th and 17th Centuries, their defeat at Khotyn is what prevented them from being a direct threat to the West during the Thity Years' War despite their indirect involvement as anti-Hapsburg partisans.

But it was far from the first and most significant land battle they lost to a Christian army. Since the "reference" only directs to a (correct, in this case) claim about the Battle of Lepanto and not to any actual outside source, I am deleting this unsubstantiated and incorrect claim.Shield2 03:46, 26 October 2007 (UTC)