ABSTRACT
For the people of Hungary, the price of their liberation by the Austrian Habsburgs from the Ottoman Empire was, and would remain, extremely high, making comparison with the situation in Bohemia after 1618 inevitable: the Bratislava Diet of autumn 1687 voted to abolish royal elections, recognise hereditary succession and bring about the formation of a commission to look into the dispersal of the imperialists' newly acquired lands there. Nevertheless, they appear to have accepted the move south-eastwards, and may have even recognised the Bohemian-Hungarian parallels, even if they and the wider body of English-speaking military entrepreneurs' accounted were persuaded more effectively by Imperial propaganda, in particular, the promise of higher rewards, to join together at the forepost of Christianitie and in opposition to the Ottoman Empire rather than against any of the emperor's internal foes. Many Christians as well as Tatars and so-called Kuruc raiders served in the Ottoman armies, while non-Christians fought in defence of Christendom.
