The Siege of Vienna: The Last Great Trial Between Cross & Crescent (25 page)

II. The Habsburg Frontier:
above
, Komárom, a fortress on the Danube;
below
, Petronell, a nobleman’s mansion east of Vienna

III. Emperor Leopold in Youth and Old Age.

IV. Charles V, Duke of Lorraine

V. The Burgplatz

VI. The Hofburg and the Turkish Siege-Works

VII.
Above
, Vienna in 1649;
below
, a plan of the City in 1683

In the older print (much of it based on a drawing made in 1609) a mediaeval wall still defends the city along the Canal. The plan of 1683 shows the new bastions on this side, and the destruction of the bridge over the Canal by the garrison.

VIII. The Tartars Crossing a River

A, B: women captives; C, E: other prisoners, tied to the tails of the horses; D, F: Tartars getting equipment across on bundles of reeds; G: extra reeds; H: spare horses

IX. The Siege of Vienna

X. Koltschitzki in Disguise