The Life of King John Sobieski, John the Third of Poland: A Christian Knight, the Savior of Christendom (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Life of King John Sobieski, John the Third of Poland: A Christian Knight, the Savior of Christendom In the year 1453, the Greek, or Byzantine, Em pire fell before the Mohammedans and they captured Constantinople, making it the capital of their Turk ish or Ottoman Empire, but all their attempts to push farther West had failed. But the seventeenth century seemed to be their opportunity, for the Christian nations had become hopelessly divided into bitter antagonisms between the followers of the Pope of Rome and the followers of Martin Luther, the reformed monk, who were fighting bloody battles to destroy each other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Life of King John Sobieski, John the Third of Poland: A Christian Knight, the Savior of ChristendomIn the year 1453, the Greek, or Byzantine, Em pire fell before the Mohammedans and they captured Constantinople, making it the capital of their Turk ish or Ottoman Empire, but all their attempts to push farther West had failed.But the seventeenth century seemed to be their opportunity, for the Christian nations had become hopelessly divided into bitter antagonisms between the followers of the Pope of Rome and the followers of Martin Luther, the reformed monk, who were fighting bloody battles to destroy each other.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Life of King John Sobieski

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The Life of King John Sobieski, John the Third of Poland: A Christian Knight, the Savior of Christendom (Classic Reprint)

The Life of King John Sobieski, John the Third of Poland: A Christian Knight, the Savior of Christendom (Classic Reprint)

Life of King John Sobieski