Battle of Nicopolis 1396 Hungarian Crusade DOCUMENTARY
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- The Ottoman invasion that was ramping up despite heavy losses in the battle of Kosovo in 1389, was met with growing resistance. The King of Hungary Sigismund called for one of the last a crusade in history and the Crusader army consisting of forces from France, Burgundy, Hungary, Wallachia, Bulgaria, England, Aragon, Germany, Bohemia, Poland, Teutonic Order and Knights Hospitaller fought the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I (Yıldırım Bayezid) and the Prince of Serbia Stefan Lazarević at Nicopolis in Bulgaria (Никопол | Niğbolu). Hope you will enjoy this episode. :-)
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Kings and Generals how about the battle of guruslau for the next video?
Whatever happened to commisar bro? Don't get me wrong Devin is not terrible but I like bro's voice a little bit more, can we have him again as narrator?
Battle of Angora next!!
Kings and Generals next do the battle of Vienna please
Kings and Generals or hernan cortes conquest of the Aztecs
The proud French knights being overconfident and reckless, this happens over and over again in this period, doesn't it?
Yes, it seems that we are reading about the same battle over and over again for 150 years. At this point, I pity the horses more than the knights. :-)
Cowardly Eastern Europeans though. Retreated at the crucial moment. The Burgundians took the brunt of the battle and still somehow prevailed. So bad.
Quetzalcoatl the east Europeans were thought to continuously try to persuade the burgundians to use the infantry first, so they probably thought that they did everything they could
Plus that, the experienced soldiers in the wallachian continget were few in number, due to the victory that they recently "suffered"( even if they won the battle in 1395, they were outnumbered and they suffered horrific losses too), so it was made mostly from inexperienced men who were easy to rout( especially after they saw how the better equipped and trained burgundians knights were just trashed)
The cavalry charge was really stupid, if only the westerners would've done as the Hungarian king adviced.....
yes true even in Egypt during the battle of Mansoura 1250 AD the 7th crusade led by King Louis IX of France, his Brother Robert I, Count of Artois get ambushed by Mamluks knights and killed because of this reckless behavior
Quetzalcoatl they (the west europeans) was stupids and don't lisen the experimented leader , and sorry for retreting for preparing for next battles and wars , and don't die like fools because a frenchman and like westeners who at next christian vs ottomans war they fight for the Ottomans who every sure they will lose if not the Westerners . For every Westerners killed a thousen tortured no?
French Knights at that time period seem like total muscle heads. Not sure if Leroy Jenkins' ancestors are them or not.
:D thanks for reminding me of my WoW days. :-) Yes, that is an apt description.
You kind of missed the point of Yau Lye's comment :P He is saying that they didn't really think things through intelligently, but rather only thought about glory and French victory over their allies...
The Hundred years war is pretty funny, since it can be seen as the french trying over and over to find a way to make their favourite tactic work again (and succeeding, weirdly).
@@TheFiresloth well the French succeeded when they abandoned the focus on knights and created a modern army under Charles VII, they were also precursors (in western Europe) for the use of artillery. So they had to change their favourite tactics.
@@massaweed420 Honestly, I can easily picture a French soldier of the era to not care much about the outcome of the battle in the long run but just how his conduct would be perceived in the eyes of God. Medieval people weren't nearly as afraid of death as we are now, in fact many even looked forward to the eternal paradise.
''The Crusaders didn't honor the agreement''.
Well, that didn't happen before....
@İnsan I like you
@Harry Paul he was not. this is just your fabricated lie
@Harry Paul
Idiot already told u that is fabricates..but u r insisting again and again...if u believed so then we dont care and you can live in your fools Paradise...idiot racist Christian
Kids, stop fighting, both religions are idiot
@Harry Paul Who the fuck is saying the Marriage equals to sex Only?
You are typical western trash who only thinks with its cock.......Marriage mean something else in East and the sex is just 1 very very small part of it POPES TRASH
Everybody Else: "OK, here's the plan."
France: "Charge? We heard charge."
Everybody Else: "What? No, we need to prepare-"
France: "OK let's charge."
:D
French knights' hubris ruins everything from Crecy to Agincourt to Nicopolis
@@MrAlexkyra and screw Napoleon later on too
haha Brave French😂
@@Muhammed552 ahem... Field Marshal Ney at Waterloo
From fighting Timurids soldiers at Ankara to fighting Commonwealth soldiers at Gallipoli, the Ottomans have a juicy war record.
Yep, non-stop wars.
@Burak korea?
@Burak
Ancient TURKIC*
Medeival day Turks were turkified Anatolians mixed with a shit ton of Greek blood
You can tell from their looks
They lost the squinty eye and brown eyes and black hair that the Turkic tribes of central Asia have same as how the mughals lost their distinct central Asian look after mingling with so many rajputs they practically became Indian through and through
@@BALLARDTWIN And medieval day Greeks in Anatolia were... Wait, nobody called themselves Greeks in Anatolia, they called themselves Romans and they were Romanized peoples of Anatolia from several ethnic groups. You are welcome.
@Alt MetinRum ne demek, önce düşünerek konuşmak lâzım.
after that victory bayezid got the nickname yildirim which means the lightning
Yes, indeed! :-)
Not after that fight actually. He was mentioned as Yıldırım in some of his father's letters too. That means Bayezid was so good at wars that he was nicknamed Yıldırım even before he became padişah
But unfortunately some of my Turkish friends in Istanbul r saying bad about there brave grandfathers🙊🙊 ne hala geldik!! Yazık!
Not lightning “thunderbolt”
abdisalam abdulahi if they secular I am not surprised
I see Timur Vs Bayezid is coming!! you are doing a very nice job with small details like playing Mehter march on the background and using a quote of 'Lightning' Bayezid with a lightning effect :p
Thanks :-) Indeed, the battle of Ankara will be the next episode of this series. :-)
Will you do a vid on the campaigns of Vlad Tepes?
+Beam Me Up at least one
That lightning effect wasn't small, I shat my pants.
Tamerlane = Timur also Turk ...
really love the Ottoman music in the background.....amazing unbiased commentary
+Ghazi Farazfar thank you! :-)
As it should be. Its in the history after all. No point in bending what already happen.
Thats Byzantian music
Not ottoman music either arabic or byzantian
@@zlakhal taht is ottoman music, called ceddin deden
Turks and Serbs against whole Westeros. Good Game Guys.
Serbians manage to do more damage in 1389 to Ottomans then entire Europe combined
Plamen Stoev hahahahha plamen gahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Plamen Stoev gahahahahahahahahaha no u plamen
@Plamen Stoev 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 bulgarians ??? 😂😂😂😂😂 Stop doing drugs kid
@@lahaine8026 Serbs helped the Turks more than anyone else , u fake christian
The battle summed up.
Mircea: Dudes! Put me in command! I fought them before, I know what and how!
Everyone else: You know nothing Mircea.
Yep, that is a great summation. :-) In later centuries we see that likes of Mircea get more and more prominence in the armies.
Kings and Generals Are you going to do some battles from Romania? Would love to hear about some of them from my country. Like the battle of Vaslui or the Night Attack of Targoviste.
+Wolf Mann plan to.
Had the French listened to Sigismund and Micrea
Meanwhile, on the Ottoman side:
Bayezid: Hey, Stefan. Do you see these idiots?
Stefan: I do see these idiots, Bayezid.
Oh shit the Timurids are coming
I think that I see a fellow Medieval 2 player. :-)
Next episode. :-)
Omega Alpha Timur was Turkish not mongol
Kings and Generals nah I just know my stuff😎
+Kenny Zhang yep, he did.
The more I watch you, the content becomes better.
The way you are presenting it is very interesting, keep up the good work!
Thank you very much! We are constantly trying to improve. :-)
Kings and Generals I think this episode was really awesome, i enjoyed every second. We should thank you guys for your amazing work))
+Ggoddkkiller the feeling is mutual. Love my audience. :-)
And it is true. Nowaday Kings and General's contents are quality of legendary
The lightning effect when Beyazid shows up gaves me goosebumps. Perfect.
Thank you!
bayzaid the thunderbolt
FUN FACT: Stefan recognised his brother-in-law Nicholas II Garai, who fought for the other side, and managed to help him get across the Danube, away from the Ottoman captivity.
ANOTHER FUN FACT: Stefan managed to capture Sigismund's banner during this battle. The banner was guarded by Stefan's brother-in-law, Nicholas II Garai.
THIRD FUN FACT: Sigismund managed to escape by a fisherman's boat.
Great facts! There is an episode that depicts Bayezid's annoyance with the first and the second fact. He hoped that Nicholas will stay out of the war or will be captured/killed by Stefan.
kings and princes do not have family relations like commoners. if u die, ur brother in law has right to claim the throne. its always better to keep him busy somewhere far from palace
Counts of Cilli (grofovi Celjski) were the Slovenians you mentioned.
@@BaksBaksBaks Thanks 👍
BaksBaksBaks 🤣🤣🤣
LoL I feel like whenever French knights are mentioned it's always a story about stupidty and recklessness
Well, they will learn. :-)
Lool
Lol for sure unless it's the Normans
Pour ça qu’on a gagné le plus de bataille dans le monde 😘😘😘🦾🦾🦾
🎵Ceddin deden , neslin baban 🎵 love that civ 5's mehter. Thank you for using my machinima in your documentary :)
Thanks for helping us. :-) I hope you like how we used it. :-)
Malay Archer 🎵Hep Kahraman Türk Milleti Orduları 🎵😃
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Hi ziq, pe kaba lame x dgr cite
Basically
Hungarians and Romanians : Leave this to us we have experience and Mircea all ready beat them once.
Western Europeans: Shut up you know nothing....sacre bleu
Hungarians and Romanians hate each other but they dont realize they were the ones who saved Europe from turning into muslim
@@papapara2916 wtf ua-cam.com/video/32o8Ulv8RBU/v-deo.html
just look to ww1 and ww2 germans destroy europa and ottomans ruled almost 400 year balkans we know balkans realy stable that times unlike todays ofcouse you dont like turks and muslims but lets be honest they dont destroy or slaugther native peoples yes they want convert to islam lot of the didnt some of them convert we seen only 2 nations have muslim population in balkans albania (%60)and bosnia other christians 1500s ottomanarmy so powerfull if they want to kill every christian in balkans they can do it but they didnt why ? because they are not monsters
we seen jarusalem seige crusaders killing everyone in this city what a mercy isnt? or spain graneda same thing isnt it ? nazis other facists killing jews marking jews we dont seen anything like ottomans native christians and muslims live together and jews to some many centurys balkans have peace thank a god peoples calm down balkans doesnt kill each others now
ottoman empire copycat muslim roman empire but they are not so succesfull (ottomans)
even janisstary soliders idea come from rome same is siphai heavy cavalry class lot of goverining system similar
lot of greek roman other balkan scholar work for turks they build to this empire lot of albanian bosnian pasha governing to empire lot of sultan have greek roman mother even jew armenian
ofcourse we all know roxelena polish slave one day become sultan wife we cant seen like other europian monarchs
dont judge so easly everyone make mistakes some one make few some other make to much ottomans mehh
@@eternalbluesky6802 Ahh yes the classic ottoman fanboy
@@mister_grizzlee5105 nope but you small country peoples playing always victim poor nations outsiders came and slave your layz ancestors bla bla
@@papapara2916 I really hate how we weren't able to set our differences aside at least until the Ottoman menace was gone. I like to imagine it would have caused the Oriental Crisis a few centuries earlier.
French Knights charging too soon is a meme
Yes, and it probably was a meme back then :-)
How is being honorable a meme... maybe not smart but honorable
Kings and Generals Trust me. French knights weren’t no meme back then . Dominated the battlefield . You only hear about the loses. Typical beta male
Jojo Momo Nah, just historically accurate.
Jojo Momo You know who won that war correct?
"Gidin daha büyük ordular toplayın ki kazanacağım zaferlerde bir o kadar büyük olsun." - Niğbolu Aslanı Yıldırım Bayezid
Yedim
@@GjergjKastriotiottomanSlayer İskender Bey Arnavutluğu da Osmanlıya kattık her iki dünyada da kahr-u perişan oldunuz geçmiş olsun
@@mehmetmiracgunes5381 şu an Osmanlı diye bi imparatorluk tanımıyorum
@@GjergjKastriotiottomanSlayer sağlam dayamış Osmanlı, atalarına zamanında kuyruk acınız büyük belli
@@GjergjKastriotiottomanSlayer rejim değişti Türkiye ile Osmanlı arasında tek fark yönetim şekli
As a Turk, I'm very surprised to see how much help has come to the Ottomans from the Serbians.
You shouldn't be, Lazar was a close ally of Bayezid. :-)
O.O I think that you meant to say Stefan. Lazar was not really into the whole Ottoman idea... *cought* Plochnik... *cought* Kosovo...
+Marko Stojadinov obviously, I meant Stefan. Thank you!
Then you should have paid attention at class when you were at elementary, maybe you wouldnt be so surprised then xD
@@avengersana where are you from?I wonder now about your women? Haha...
''Go gather bigger armies so that my victories will be greater.'' .....Bayezid I, also known as Bayezid the Thunderbolt
Bayezid : I see your courage (looking down to all europe)
Behold ! I ll be like lightening during the battle ! ( As he did indeed)
I can say that Bayezid ridiculously humilated all europe !
He was a great commander he lost against a better commander than himself Timur fight of the 2 mighty Turks
Wtf.... France, Britain, Italy, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Czech, Romania, Malta, Netherland, Poland vs Turks+Serbs....
But still???? Did this really happened........??
It's not France, Britain, Germany, etc, but adventurers from France, Italy, Germany, etc. At that time the Crusades were a meant for the younger (and so excluded from succession) son of the nobles to loot some booty and reclaim some land for themself.
@Neutron Alchemist what about battle of varna??
Were those countries or just few independents against Ottomans?
In the Battle of Varna the only forces coming from western Europe were an handful of Papal and Teutonic Knights. Only Poland and Hungary sent something resembling a substantial force. The same year, at the Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs, the French alone employed vs the Swiss more men than the combined Christian forces at Varna, and they were still fighting the English on another front.
@@neutronalchemist3241 According to the western europeans, they did all of the work, when in the reality they sent only few thousands troops.
also "turks". The ottoman army consistes of multiple nations of the ottoman empire. There were men from the balkans, anatolia, arabia and so on. This idea of yeah turks against all of europe is just dumb.
So the French got arrogant and refused to listen to sage advice and recklessly went ahead and caused their own defeat? Sounds familiar.
Well from the Wallachain perspective Mircea took the right decision: why loose his troops when himself and Sigismund told the french time and time again to atack together.
Yep, difficult to blame. I would probably have strangled Jean with my hands. :-)
Mirchea was a wise and clever ruler. I like how he dressed up as a peace emissary before the battle of Rovine and talked to Bayezid asking him to leave Wallachia and promising him safe passage back.
An example of how arrogance and excessive pride can lead to defeat and death. Sigismund and Mircea proposed that the Wallachian infantry attack first since they had experience against the Ottomans from the previous years of fighting and the first line of the Ottoman soldiers consisted of slighty weaker troops used to tire the enemy until the Spahis joined to attacked the tired and disorganised enemy, but the French refused because they thought that they will lose the opportunity to gain honor and prestige in favour of the Wallachians
And the answer was "You know nothing poor east europians." And this arrogance brought its fruit.
But you saw the video. Had they stayed and fight they would of saved the French knights and possibly would of won the battle or at least save the knights and allow for an ordered retreat.
French knights: In the name of god we will crush the infidels.
Bayezid: Hold my tea :)
Updated: Bayezid i can beat Timurid anytime i want.
Timurid : hold my fry pan ;)
KOSOVO IS ALBANIA HALF OF SERBIA IS ALBANIA MACEDONIA IS ALBANIA HALF OF CREECE IS ALBANIA
Byzantines: Byzantium will be fine
1453: HEYYYYY
@@macedoniaillyrianmacedonia8172 lol
....
The Mongols : Hold our milk !
*coffee
you heretic
3:22 Budapest? Budapest was formed in the end of the 19th century, you can only say either Buda or Pest.;)
+Lampavaja Nyasha I know that. :-) It was a choice made to avoid confusing the viewer. Great nickname, btw.
@@user-db9iz4xk6l yes it was
@@user-db9iz4xk6l the town mentioned in the video was Buda, but there was another town across the Danube, Pest, and those two towns are now Budapest.
That was an awesome quote by Bayezid I. Thanks for including it.
We had more quotes, but couldn't incorporate them, maybe later. :-)
Imagine if the Muslims kingdoms in the east started a crusade against Europe , The mamluks , the seljuks , The fatimid caliphate , the abbasid caliphate, the delhi sultanate , the golden horde and the afghans kings all joined together and started an invasion of eruope then europeans historians will say that they were "hundred of thousands" even millions of Muslim marched towards europe. But when Europeans did this and were crushed decisively in every crusade they said "oh they were only 20,000 not more than this". This is called hypocrisy.
so so true. This channel NEVER mentions the true European numbers. We Muslims were always outnumbered. Yet crushed them. Now they spread fake numbers to save their faces.
Hamad khan how was they crushed in every crusade? What about the first crusade and the 3rd one was not a crushing was it?
@@lionheart3916 How the hell do u bring up the disastrous third crusade? All of Europe attacked just one King (Saladin) and STILL couldn't take Jerusalem whereas Richard the Donkeyhart drove England to bankruptcy
@@alvirarahman1559 firstly know your facts it wasnt all if Europe the king of the holy roman empire died on his way to the crusade the french king came and went after the fall of acre so the only one was Richard and he deafeated saladin in every ecounter they had and salidin gave up hope of keeping Jerusalem if it wasnt for king john who was planning to take the English throne off of richerd then king Richard could have concentrated on taking the city also it was king john who almost bankrupt England thats why the barrons rebelled and made him sighn the magna carter so get your facts right
Ottoman, safavid and mughal alliance would be enough to conquer the whole old world except china. Imagine russia, germany and uk allying in ww1 against rest. That would be the same. 3 most powerful gunpowder empires against knights in sword and plate.
The winner of "The Last Duel", Jean de Carrouges, died in this battle 66 y.o.
Ooh, really! Great info, thanks.
much better than died in duel , rip
He should be John the mad. Should he and his armies accepted sigismunds expertise and counsel they would have won.
Watching from Somalia....watching deeply... Turkey....lead us all to glory...
Haha after years in 1402 in ankara ???
You pull yourself by your own bootstraps, you rely on yourself and wish to be the one leading, not begging and cheerleading like a helpless women. t*rkey has always had an insignificant history with Somalia and we hope after this sad point in our history it will be that way again. Please, please Sharaf yeelo.
@@Adamsmithv I have and am doing my upmost best for my country. Didn't settle in the capital cities like most qurbe joog but rather in a town... Established a sme business... A farmer's co-op, xafiska hormarinta bulshada... Etc etc... Took the best years of my life... Please don't lecture me on a comment I wrote...
@@Adamsmithv to practically show people how to farm, to use our lands blessing for our benefit... Sand dams, renewable energy, for example... Ppl out there ain't got credit cards.... So I had to order solar panels and then deliver it to them... Cuz a solar powered water pump saves money so that money can go to hiring more laborers so they can farm more land. Education... Lobby the government so the university can get salary...
@@Adamsmithv I get your intention behind the words... But be happy that I am rebuilding our country in the best way I can... Turkey has its own best interests at hand... But help is help... If you don't mind me asking... Are you in Somalia or overseas?
Despot Stefan Lazarević had good relationship with King Sigismund of Hungary. King Sigismund even granted fortresses of Belgrade and Golubac to Despot Stefan, concluded alliance with him and Despot Stefan was even a high member of the Crusader Order of the Dragon formed by King Sigismund. The battle of Nicopolis was I think just a payback for King Sigismund's actions when Despot Stefan just ascended to the throne of Serbia, when King Sigismund attacked Serbia from the north.
true! He had a greatest title (despot) in the Order of the Dragon
Serbs were loyal servants to Ottomans for 200 years. They fought in 20 battles alongside Ottomans. Even went as far as Anatolia to fight for them.
French soldiers presuming their superiority of arms/training/fortification over the enemy and then loosing badly? That's new.
Username checks out. :-) To be honest, they were the best fighters skill-wise.
I believe that at least Henry V. , Arthur Wellesley, Otto von Bismarck and Erwin Rommel would dare to disagree.
What I meant was that the French knights were, probably, the best individual fighters of their time. And that made them cocky bastards. :-)
Kings and Generals if every army in 1300-1400s was infantry based, France would have controlled the whole world
Epic FailureCZ => Wellesley? The Irishman who had to be saved by the Prussians against Napoleon?
I really like that you always talk about the things which happened before the battle. "Context is for kings"
Thanks! It is important to know how the battles came to be. :-)
@@KingsandGenerals He always mentions justifications for defeating the Europeans if they were defeated, but he does not mention the turmoil that the Muslim generals suffered.
I did not know that the turks had won the battle with the help of the serbs
sorry for my bad english.
Thanks for the video
Your English is ok. Thanks for watching!
The turks also won heirs with the help of the serbs, the sulltana Marija was a serbian princes! So Sulltan was helped here by his Serbian father in law!
LindaS
Wow really?
Than wth happened?
Ognjen A.
Loooooooooooooool
Ognjen A.
Don’t make things up bro it makes it even worse for you lmao
“We didn’t help willingly “🤣🤣
6:12 "Behold, I will be like lightning during the battle." It's hard to not admire this guy.
damn these french knights always do the same thing
For a century or two, they did that constantly.
easy hunting for British archers :D
So true ahahahah!
Napoleon in Russia is the same. Keep pushing lololol
Por que Juan?
One of the most interesting things you learn in this series is that the different Christian kingdoms (Serbs, Wallachians, Moldavians, Hungarians etc.) seemed to have been spending more time fighting each other than being united against the Turks, or even siding with the Turks against another Christian kingdom. It goes to show that this idea of a united Christian Europe fighting against Islam is a myth invented by modern day ethnonationalists.
@@capablemachine 30 years war*
80 Years War was the Dutch-Spanish War
Inrerestingly they taught similar things to us( I am turkish) at school. We were told that the entire Christianity united against Turks although it is very obvious that this is all lies to gather people’s favoritism towards their management.
It’s mostly depending on who is the main threat to one of them , and who is the weak
The Catholics fought a lot against Orthodoxs I guess since the division of the Roman Empire but also against the Muslims in Anatolia, Levant and the Iberian peninsula too on the western side when the crusades started and made treaties with the byzantines and Hungarians
The orthodox byzantines in the other hand also fought a lot with the early Muslim Arabs and the Muslim Seljuk Turks
And Russians were another tough enemy to the ottomans
The ottomans too turned against the Armenians after they were living in under the ottoman rule for 4 centuries in WW1 after their revolts
Sides can sometimes easily change, just like Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, fought together against Poland and fought each other about 4 years after
1618-1648 the 30 years war, christians fighting each other and destroying Europe
World War I & World War II.... Always christians against christians, now they try something new: christians vs. muslims
@@kubilaygitmisoglu2342 Lmao, no. Turkish history lessons at high school make it explicit that Balkan's being not united, lack of central powers and Black Plague contributed to rise of Ottomans and once Europe got centralized, Black Plague ended and Ottoman reached natural borders, Ottoman expansion ended.
In retreat, it’s reported that King Sigismund said: “We lost the day by the pride and vanity of these French.”
@@futurei0oo Yes, he was a true KING.
@@futurei0oo so called? lmao
True, if sigismund had real power over the army , they would've won.
Sultan Beyazıt han çok yaşa!
Honourable TurK ju qifsha rracen siq ju ka prere skanderbeg
@@kapedanimirditor649 birtek senmi farklı dil konuşabiliyorsun sanıyorsun ? Skanderbege saygım sonsuz ama argo kullanmanin gereği yoktu .
Virus The Gamer Arnavutluk'ta Osmanlı imparatorluğu uğruna tüm bu toprakları kaybettiğimiz ve bir insan olarak dağıtıldığımız söz dağarcığını kullanıyorum,
@@kapedanimirditor649 yüzlerce yıl sonra arabeske devam diyorsun yani
Virus The Gamer Bugün Türkiye Arnavutluk'taki Balkanlar'da iki standart kullanıyorsa, camiler açıyor ve Sırbistan'da fabrikalar açıyor, insanların müreffeh bir ekonomiye ihtiyacı var, çünkü herkes inançtan bıkmış durumda. Türkiye'de 5 milyondan fazla Arnavutumuz olduğunu unutmayın.
You guys forgot the mention the exceptionally heroic French knight who led the charge: L'roi du Jenkin
The Serbians saved us here.
But this battle shows that even if you are strong as the Ottoman Empire, you still have chance to lose the battle if the tactics are not executed well. But this time the hit and run tactics from Central Asian Turks did work.
Actualy after this battle Jean de Nevers was nicknamed "Jean sans Peur" meaning Jean the Fearless, because of using such a wonderful tacting consisting of CHAAAARGING right in front of spikes arrows and cavalry
I think he earned the nickname later. :-)
@@KingsandGenerals I honestly don't remember but I believe it's related
I think European crusaders are much more in numbers than it was presented you see how many countries participate it for me was unbelievable that ottomans were still in high numbers as compared to Europeans and also impossible.I think crusaders were more than ottomans in numbers
Makes me wonder how useful European tactics actually were. They get their ass kicked everytime they fight a non european army. Makes me think that all glory behind european heavy cavalry is nothing more dramatization which most likely made by teenagers who hyped about knights and heavy cavalry but without much knowledge and understanding about outcomes. I personally like the picture of french knight with lance but history show much different picture.
I know I'm answering this 8 month later,but this is a fairly uninformed comment. European tactics could be as effective as any other army,but it was not suited to fight experienced light horse infantry. While they might be "light",they trained their whole lives,and were incredibly effective in the suited situation. The Mongols conquered a good bit of Asia and Europe on the back of their light cavalry. Heavy European knight used to chase light infantry always end in the same way. Death. Cause they can't catch them. A wise commander knows that(Sigismund apparently) and uses his cavalry wisely.
Simply because in the medieval times (and even before), Europeans followed a very different doctrine in terms of armor and how to approach enemy, where they relied on very heavy cavalry and infantry with slow manoeuvrability. Whilst the Middle Easterns (Arabs and Muslims in general) followed a completely different doctrine, they relied on light cavalry and infantry with high manoeuvrability. Each doctrine has its own flaws, so only smart leaders could utilise what they had on hand to win battles.
You can trace these things in all the battles fought between the east and the west, from Spain (when it was under Arab's control) to the Levant.
They won if the caught them but that depended a lot on terrain and there was always the risk that you we supposed to pursue them to spring an ambush.
Competent leaders only allowed them short control charges. Like you see in the third crusade. But being aristocrats it took a very firm hand to control them.
And there is "Only knights can swing a sword". At least they decided this is bs after fucked up hundred times.
Michael Miller Yeah yeah, we heard that that crusaders from Kılıj Arslan, Danişment Gümüş Tegin Ghazi, Tuğtekin ( Dodequin ) etc.
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Thank you, good sir! :-) We have a few videos on Poland and we are planning even more.
Not that suprising that European sources would massively inflate the Ottoman numbers. That way it wouldn't seem like they were embarassingly out-strategied and out-maneuvered, which they were. Bayezid seems like he went there to win a battle, while the French knights went there to live out a Crusader fantasy.
If Timur and Beyazid united then Europe would have been fully conquered without a doubt.
If Serbs didnt won on Kosovo in 1389 the whole Europe would fall easily
@@lahaine8026 Serbs lost at Kosovo
If the Crusaders acted in a united and concerted fashion (not just in 1396, earlier crusades too), the Middle East would have been fully conquered without a doubt.
@@lahaine8026
You confused poland with serbia
Good joke.
Beyazid the Thunderbolt was as capable as Timur but his own Anatolian Subjects turned to Timur and he couldnt muster Enough forces to face the enemy as big as timur
everyone says the French knights made the wrong decision, but no one accepts that the Turks were great warriors, a nation that came before Vienna from the Asian steppes deserves commendation
The army of the crusaders in this war was 100,000 (disputed) The Ottoman army was 60000 or 80000 people
I live in the middle East and this channel helped me in my studies of the crusades and the ottomans, thank yoi
+OMAR IS GOOD thank you for watching!
The early ottomans were really bad assess nothing seemed to be able to stop them, apart from that setback by the Timurids who were by the way also of central Asian Muslim descent.
+Mati khorasani they had one of the earliest professional armies and that helped.
Hassan Abdulsalam Even Russians checked his DNA, he was Turkic. He was speaking Turkic language as well. He just used mongolian for political purpose.
@HT The term "turkic" in medieval era is the same as caucasian today. In other words, it was of absolutely no importance to the people of the time. The turkish nationalism that you speak of today was created by the secular officers of the Ottoman empire in the early 20th century.
@@cv4809 They first defeated the serbs and then had them ;)
Romanian stop them many Times
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Your productions are amazing. I find these much more entertaining than anything on the history channel.
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9:17 anyone else notice the guy gets his head cut off with a mace? Like that’s skill right there...
turan tactic always works hahahaha :))) nice video
except when not
@@boyanbogdanov1854 Rushing someone with a bunch of horseback archers always works
A lot of people in comments still feel the sympathy for the crusades even after slaughtering innocent people who had already surrendered or were just living a normal life, they deserved every bit of what happened in the battle.
Those crusaders were brave men who were doing God's work you heretic
@hAkan O Heresy
@@zarni000 Yeah keep believing that. You have no idea how cruel and hypocrite the crusaders were.
@@zarni000
for ottomans: Christians= cizya (tax) = money. they would not massacre their financial source.
could you give me some sources about your claims, please? not wiki or another websites, show me the books written by historians about it
@@KofteG61 Yeah tell that to jihadists with their 3000 jihads where they proved to be hypocrites
Crusade of Varna next please 😀😀
Future suggestion
1) Battle of Alcacer Quibir - Morocco vs Portugal where King of Portugal die on battlefield and result in Iberian Union between Spain & Portugal
2) Battle of Ain Jalut - Mongol was defeated by Mamluk. Kick ass battle and change of course of history
All are planned. :-)
Kings and Generals nice great to hear that 😀 will lose love if you do video about Norman Conquest of Sicily from Muslim Saracen . Not many people talk about it. People seem focus on Reconquista Spain only
I will need to research that topic, don't know the details on the level it is needed.
I think there's no report of the portuguese king Sebastian dying in Alcacer-Qibir, his body was never found. This means God took him to save Portugal when the time comes.
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People were not very creative with their legends, weren't they?
:D we always retell the same stuff, that is why legends in the remote parts of the world are so similar.
Very nice documentary. Turkish sources say that the Ottoman composite bows used in this battle were very powerful, capable of piercing the French knights' armor. Thus causing more casualties than the sources suggest.
no army sailed to Budapest before this battle, as Budapest did not exist till 1873, when it was created with the unification of Buda, Pest and Óbuda. The royal capitol of Hungary at this time was Buda
True. But it was easier to say Budapest. Hope, that it is not a big deal.
I love this channel. It has such a good way of presentation that i can't stop watching. Even the details like backround music is awesome... keep going :-)
+amir behmar thank you! :-) you can help us by sharing our videos. :-)
Wow, you guys are improving at a stellar pace. The change of narrators is really helping, and you've stopped sounding too dramatic. Keep up the good work!
That said, I spotted two minor errors in this video: Firstly, the Knights Hospitaller's army appears to originate from Malta, which is perhaps their best-known base, but in the 1390s they were stationed on Rhodes, which they acquired in 1310 and lost in 1522. Secondly, you referred to the Hungarian capital as Budapest, but Budapest was created as a unification of Buda, Pest, and Óbuda in 1873, Buda having been the capital until then. I could see why you might want to call it Budapest just for the audience's sake, but it would only take a second to say e.g. "Buda, the Hungarian capital" instead, and it'd be more accurate!
This, exactly
Perfect explanation of the battle. I have suggested your channel to a facebook page which has 4000 members. We are looking forward to your next video.
+Burak Göktaş thank you, my friend!
Overconfident and reckless French troops making a mess becomes a cliche in history. We keep seeing this scenario again and again. Great videos !
As always, an awesome and very enjoyable video! Just a tiny correction: the capitol of Hungary of this time was Buda - Buda (on the left side of the Danube) and Pest (on the right side of the Danube) was two different city utnil 1873, when the two has been merged into Budapest. STill, a fantastic video, keep up the great work guys!!! :)
Thank you very much! That was deliberate. :-)
Serbians were also the last to stand their ground and continue fighting till the very end in the battle of Ankara despite a significant turkic elements of the ottoman army defected to the timur’s army. Even timur expressed his admiration for serbian gallantry in that battle. Indeed serbians were fantastic and honorable warriors and loyal allies back then
all of christendom vs 1 turkish ottoman beylik (beylik is same level with duchy) ottoman empire wasnt empire in 1396 became empire in 1453 whatever ez win
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6:45 It was actually the Wallachian Prince , Mircea the Elder who proposed the plan and asked to be let to start the attack to break the Ottomans' wall.
“Indeed ‘tis a fine sword. If I’d had its like at Necopolis, things would’ve turned out differently.” - Sir Istvan Toth
Just came from Kingdom Come Deliverance to watch this
United We Stand one of my favorite things about the game, there’s a trove of good history and lore
Please tell us which software or application you use to create the videos
Adobe After Effects
@@KingsandGenerals thank you As Soo much ♥️
All vs Turks, Like always xD
@the Belgian dont cry
the Belgian but honestly it doesn’t give a proper advantage to either side because the different factions will be comprised of different types of unit with different tactics and strategies so fighting against them will be harder but on the other hand they will be more divided and wouldn’t be a United force and they’ll do their own things. So it’s like an even match up
@@0NG4RN because western historyan always exchange number they always show muslim are outnumber wich is totally false
@@0NG4RN really😂they take it from wikipedia muslim historyan in this battle claimed that crusade are outnumber then ottoman but in king and general say both are same number so wich historyan book you believed???
@@0NG4RN yes they take muslim sources to but number not
-Ottoman Śukarullaha 15bc discrived his book that christian force around around 1,30,000 and muslim force around 60,000 but king and general says muslim are outnumber then christian
Music that you used in this video is great.
Thanks! :-)
totally agree, but whats the name of the song at 5:37?
Damocles DoguOgu probably a middle eastern miscellaneous song
11 seperate armies marching to fight the ottomans as one massive army
Baylid: I accept this challenge
Sultan Yıldırım Bayezid cok yaşa🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷⚔⚔⚔
That monologue in 6:14 gave me chills.
Oh yeah *Grabs popcorn*
That reminds me, I need to eat. :-)
haha, enjoy !
Fascinating as always, these are great, I'm subscribing right now!
+The Devil's Dragon welcome aboard! :-)
Goosebumps at 06:22
This is almost a perfect example of taking advantage of your enemies’ mistakes. Beyazid justified his name as Yildirim (Thunderbolt).
Btw, after the Battle Ottoman sources wrote that a wooden stick (kazik) was placed on the ground and whoever was higher then that was executed. Even Beyazid despised this bloodshed and ended the executions after a while.
There is a saying in Turkish: “Kazik kadar adam” defining boys with grown up physical appearance (a man as high as the stick). I don’t know if this comes from that battle.
Nice video. It was intriguing. Nice job to whoever made this video possible.
1390s German's enemy: Ottoman Empire
1900s German's best buddy: Ottoman Empire
why serbs didn't fight against turks in this battle? they just enabled them to rule over them for 500 years.. now I can see why croatia and serbia don't like eachother
Stephan was brother in law of Sultan Bayezid and Serbs were ottoman vassal and ally...both nations were loyal to each others for centuries.evem after battle of ankara it is said that ottomans resurrected from Balkand not from anatolia especially by Serbs....
@@princecharming1903 how can you be ally to someone who conquered you? ottomans conquered serbia and they become their vassals, and instead of choosing our side and get rid of ottomans in that battle of nicopolis, they choose to f*ck us all up and help turks.
@@zlatkomargeta4788 Stefan innheritated vassal position cos his father died at Battle of Kosovo, 2nd Sultan hold his sister in captivity, 3rd you must understand what vassal actually means, its a contract by 2 parties and its obligated for both sides, so being vassal means state remains independant but you must send troops to help the Sultan and you pay some year tax, also Ottomans must help Serbs with troops in our battles and also Ottomans pay us some fee like giving some lands or castles, but listen what Stefan did, here at Nicopolis he saved Sigismunds life, then drop vassal position to Ottomans and then went to Turkey attack the city where his sister was held, freed her and returned to Serbia and started new alliance with Sigismund and Hungary...Thats warrior and honorable move, Stefan was at that moment by far greatest European Knight and probably best in history of medival ages, he was first and most important knight in famous knight Order of Dragon where was gatthered all best European knights with Sigmund and others...
@Falcon now wtf are you talking about?? You now poured so much nonsense statements that I don't know where to begin. I'll just ask you this- if you as a vasal just pay ''some year tax'' and send some troops to the occupator, why to bother to free yourself and why to bother to conquer someone? Also, It is just POSSIBLE that Stefan left enough time for him to board the boat; Stefan ''saving'' Sigismund MAY be one of the causes of Stefan's later induction into the Order of the Dragon. And also this: There were disastrous consequences for the Balkan Christians after the defeat at the Battle of Nicopolis. Vidin was destroyed, Athens occupied (1397), the Despotate of Morea devastated once again, the fall of Constantinople became practically inevitable, and the area of Vuk Branković was taken by the Ottomans. Vuk Branković was captured and soon died in captivity (1397). Most of his area was transferred to the control of Stefan Lazarević, a small portion (centered in Vučitrn) was left to his wife Maria and sons (Đurađ, Grgur and Lazar), while the Ottomans retained strategic locations under their direct rule. In addition, the Ottoman forces marched into Hungary and plundered its southern parts, in particular, Zemun (which was devastated) and Sremska Mitrovica (which was burned down, and its population displaced). So you can say what you want, history told us everything, you saved them, they fucked you and that is it, nothing too glorious about that. Thank you.
@@zlatkomargeta4788 So you started with this "now wtf are you talking about?? You now poured so much nonsense statements that I don't know where to begin. " man would think i must go to see what this guy said that is so much bad and in all your comment you have 2 tiny things that you want to be cleared lol Im not sure whats so confusing to you and the whole vassal thing, if i were vassal as a young boy so NOT by my wish, so i need to pay somebody my money and i have to fight somebody in his wars and he took my sister (stefans sister Olivera) and Bayazit put her in captivity in some castle so all this is NOTHING to you??? Of course he wanted to free himself from obligations to invaders (turks) he wants to rule indenpendant Serbia, of course he didnt want to lose warriors for turkish wars and of course he wanted to free his sister, and you know what, HE DID ALL THAT, find me some other figure in history that did all that, is there some croatian hero like Stefan?Stefan and Sigismund had relations before that battle and they were relatives as far as i know, also is it that hard for you to say Oh this Stefan was such a warrior and knight that he was first among equal like rest of the world, why you have to be like your fellow citizens and think he was not that great, he was not bla bla or if you have facts that you are right pls give us so we can know whole truth, it is not that hard to aknowledge that serb can be good in something, also do you kow what those cruiceders or christian army did to serbs and orthodox ppl before Nicopolis Battle? Yes they murdered a lot, to us both sides are enemies and we fought we both of you, I hope i cleared this huge problem"now wtf are you talking about?? You now poured so much nonsense statements that I don't know where to begin. " you have with my previous comment...
6:20.......Bayezid on 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Fire
Way better production quality that the original documentaries, keep up the good work.
+Aether thank you. :-) we hope to be even better.
So much history that I didn't still know and I am hobbyist in this field... fantastic!
That is the best thing about history, no matter how much you learn, there is always more. :-)
most of the resources say that crusaders had more soldiers than ottomans
Damn, you're getting better and better.
Thank you, doing our best! :-)
The Crusaders have always been a complete mess, like if that wasn't enough for the Sultan to make them fight their Christian brothers 😂
Someone 22 they weren’t Christian turned to Muslim
An educational presentation with correct informations. Respect your will.
Stefan Lazarevic and the Serbs also fought at Rovine 1395 together with Bayezid against Mircea cel Batran.
The Serbs always fought alongside the Turks as vassals. Incredibly enough, in their megalomaniac mythological historiography, they try to portray themselves as the defenders of Europe against Islam and the Turks. Incredible but true.
@@superbura9Check the facts. These are just a few examples.
- from 1312 Duke Novak Grebostrek in Asia minor many battles agains Turks with Byzanth (Battle of Galipolje
- Tzar Dusan Battle of Plocnik 1386
-- many other smaller battles of Tzar Dusan against Turks as ally of Bizant
- 1371 Battle on Marica River
- 1389 Battle of Kosovo
Turks attacks on Serbia 1425, 1427, 1437, 1438
- Battle of Kruševac 1454.
- Siege of Belgrade, Siege of Smederevo 1456
- Banat Uprising 1594
- Serbian uprsing 1596
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Sultan-ı iklim-i rum
Rum?
@@vapingcat5406 anadolu selçuklauda sultanate of rum diye söyleniyor adamlar bize öyle türk demiyor.
@@nopainnogain2533 Rum Sultanın öbür bir adıdır, alemin kralı anlamında gibi birşey.
archers fire at the crusaders
Ugh, those spikes are sure a nuisance. Just gonna dismount- Oh, R.I.P. steed. Now, hey, when did it start raining?
Pretty much. :-)
Great video, great chanel realy loveing the content. Your video on The battle of Kosovo was realy something as whel. Keep it up greetings from Serbia!!!
+dragan biskupljanin thank you, my friend. :-)
plzzzzz do battle of Velbužd(Serbia vs Bulgaria)
Genius plan!3-4 centuries after the first successful crusade and the crusaders continued with the same weakness, an army scattered among their feudal leaders easy to break and flee regardless their extreme fighting quality!
Feudals are feudals. :-)
You have done a great work, please keep going to produce more...
Thank you very much, we will! :-)