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4kgVJ TIL that the largest cavalry charge of all time took place during the 1683 battle of Vienna. 18,000 Polish and German cavalry men led by the Polish king and his Hussars charged down into the vast Turkish lines and crushed the invading Ottoman army, ending the Islamic invasion of Europe.
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