The Recapture of the Citadel of Ofen by the Christians in 1686

The Recapture of the Citadel of Ofen by the Christians in 1686. For nearly a century and a half the citadel of Ofen, which is the modern Buda, had been held by the Turks, and was an important centre of the Ottoman power in the west. But after the defeat of Vienna, Leopold I., who was a strict and zealous Catholic, sent his armies into Hungary in conjunction with his German allies, and on September 2nd, 1686, Ofen was rescued from the dominion of the Turk. In the following year the grateful nobles abolished the elective monarchy which had hitherto-obtained, and the House of Hapsburg was established on the throne of Hungary,.