Excerpt from The Life-Story and Personal Reminiscences of Col. John Sobieski: A Lineal Descent of King John III of Poland; To Which Is Added His Popular Lecture "the Republic of Poland" And a Brief History of Poland Many millions of people all over Christendom have been thrilled with admiration and moved to thank God and take courage at the story of the Polish patriot and Christian soldier, King John Sobieski, who in a mighty battle at the gates of Vienna (a. D. 1683) rescued Christendom from the terrible Moslem invasion. That hero's victory, with his little army of Poles against ten times the number of Turks, says an English his torian, caused all Europe to ring with the praise of John Sobieski and echo the words chosen by Pope Innocent for his text when the great news reached Rome: 'there was a man sent from God, whose name was John' (john 1: For Sobieski had not merely delivered Austria - he had saved Europe. 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.