military heritage february 2012
Prince Eugene of Savoy & the Turks at the Battle of Peterwardein
By Ludwig Heinrich DyckThousands of dead Turkish soldiers choked the river and littered its bank. It was the fall of 1697 and the young Imperial Field Marshall, Prince Eugene of Savoy, had just vanquished the Ottoman army at Zenta (or Senta), on Hungary’s River Tiza. Read more