Ottoman Defeat at Saint Gotthard
1663
A combined Habsburg and French force, assembled under the reluctant banner of Christendom, routed the Ottoman army at the Battle of Saint Gotthard on the Raab River in Hungary. It was the first major European victory over the Ottomans in a generation, a hint that the balance of military power was beginning to tilt westward.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.