Post by Leopold I von Habsburg on Oct 5, 2016 20:56:36 GMT
The Ottomans have returned once more, bent as it would seem on undoing all that we by the grace of God fought so hard to achieve in the Great Turkish War of 1683-1699. They have invaded Christendom with, one can assume, the intent of seeing its total destruction once and for all. His Imperial Majesty calls on the Imperial Electors of the Holy Roman Empire, just as he has called upon the whole of the Empire, to to their part, to commit their forces and treasuries to the Teutonic struggle in the name of our God given right to existence as followers of the Almighty's church, regardless of one's denomination, and stand with the Pope, and all leaders of the Christian world, against our true enemy to the south, and fight in the name of the Imperial Crown, the Emperor whose powers it currently endows, in order to defend civilisation from annihilation. Let us repel these barbarous armies
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor