Battle of Zenta
September 11, 1697
Prince Eugene of Savoy, the short, scarred French-born commander of imperial armies, caught an Ottoman army crossing the Tisza river and annihilated it. Grand Vizier Elmas Mehmed Pasha died on the field along with thirty thousand of his men. Eugene had announced himself as the great general of the new century.
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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