This has been shown to be incorrect. Everything else is needless obfuscation.
That is a complicated way of saying it was the Holy Roman Empire. The non-Empire force was the Polish Commonwealth.What? You're giving the Polish WAY too much credit here. What about the Swabians? And the Bavarians? The Swabians? The Franconians? The Saxons? The Venetians? The Holy Roman Emperor?The Pope? But I guess they're all Polish....
The Polish Commonwealth made up half the force, their intervention and saved central Europe. Short lived alliance though. After the Poles had defeated the Turks for the Austrians, the Austrians were at last free to swarm over southeast Europe, paving the way for their own Empire which a century later would attack and divide Poland.
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