18,000 Horsemen at Five O'Clock: The Relief of Vienna
On September 12, 1683, Polish king Jan III Sobieski led some 18,000 horsemen down the Kahlenberg in a charge that shattered the Ottoman siege of Vienna.
Tales from the year 1683
The German Mayflower
On October 6, 1683, the ship Concord landed 13 German families at Philadelphia — the 'German Mayflower' voyage that founded Germantown and opened two centuries of German immigration to America.