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"The Turks, the Turks! The Tartars are coming! The Duke of Lorraine has been defeated! We are lost!"
Such were the cries in Vienna, on the morning of the 8th of July, 1683. A courier from the Duke of Lorraine had brought news of the unfortunate skirmish near Petronelle, and had warned the emperor of the approach of the enemy. Leopold had acted u