Under Mary's Holy Name: Victory in Vienna, September 12, 1683

Under Mary's Holy Name: Victory in Vienna, September 12, 1683: As Christian Europe tore at her own throat during the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) the Ottoman Turks missed a golden opportunity to strike their centuries-old enemy.  Why?  They were themselves absorbed with war in Persia.  Moreover, they were beset by a turbulent period of harem intrigue and governed—or not—by a string of ineffectual and self-indulgent …