Battle of Brenta, 899 - Scourge of Europe

[@HistoryMarche]

🥏 Visit 80000hours.org/historymarche and start planning a career that is meaningful, fulfilling, and helps solve one of the world’s most pressing problems. Make your 80,000 hours count. 🚩 "Deliver us, O Lord, from the arrows of the Hungarians" - A hymn from Modena, Italy c.900 AD. Brenta was one of the earliest battles of the Magyar invasions of Europe. Between 860 and 970, the Magyars were the scourge of Europe. They devastated and pillaged a wide swath of territory, from Bremen in the north, to Otranto in the south, and Orleans in the west, with some raiding expeditions reaching over the Pyrenees Mountains into Iberia.

[@FerdawsOmarkhail]

Please make a video about durani empire ❤

[@KaiHung-wv3ul]

The Magyar invasions are a really underrated era of history, I'm glad you guys seem to be covering it here. ❤

[@AXharoth]

god i hate them so much , they always win with their annoying tactics

[@thibs2837]

Common you can't pronounce some names like the Anglo-Saxon do Guy is pronounced like the "gi" in "gibberish"

[@winterthrones3960]

Can you please finish Hannibal

[@Predator20357]

>Horse Archers show up >Europeans act Superior >Horse Archers Feign Defeat >Europeans pursue >Horse Archers surprise and decimate the Europeans >Repeat like Clockwork

[@rc8937]

This time Horse Archers show up, defeat Europeans, settle down, rebrand themselves as Hungarians.

[@Predator20357]

@@rc8937 we are about 101 years from Hungary, we got some more Horse Archer tomfoolery to go around for now.

[@rc8937]

@@Predator20357 Awesome. So much more Horse Archer battles for HistoryMarche to cover.

[@aze94]

Don't forget the obligatory failed naval invasion!

[@redghettosun]

The Mongols: "Hmm.."

[@Wolfeson28]

"I will fear the Magyars the day they teach their horses to run on water." - Duke Pietro Tribuno, probably

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

🤣🤣🤣🤣. So neither him or his descendants feared these barbarians

[@Kedvespatikus]

@@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 Those "barbarians" brought you the pants you are wearing. Greetings from a "barbarian".

[@Adventeuan]

​@@Kedvespatikus You are Assyrian? Didn't know that.

[@lukas5293]

"yo, wtf" Best alert cry ever.

[@adzilabidin6136]

Ah the Magyars, the Pay-to-Win option in medieval warfare

[@zegerman360]

Hungary certainly has an underrated history

[@Zyzyx442]

Hope Historymarch will make a episode on the Hungarian Black Army at their peak.

[@dancsati23able]

Im a Hungarian My ancestors are fierce warriors :)

[@HunPride]

​@@dragosz19834ghdsits one thing to steal lands with the help of western superpowers that you did not fight for, its another to be bragging about it

[@dragosz19834ghds]

@@HunPride feel free to come take it back anytime. God i love trolling online with hungarians.

[@HunPride]

@@dragosz19834ghds you are not trolling anyone, you are embarrassing your nation

[@renatoszakal4315]

The tent scenes with the envoys are a really nice addition to your videos. Really helps the immersion.

[@TreiberSeptim]

Italians: Stupid enough to face Horse Archers in an open field. Magyars: Stupid enough to face Venetians at sea. Lesson: Never underestimate your enemy.

[@jozzieokes3422]

At sea?

[@TreiberSeptim]

@@jozzieokes3422 Yes, the Adriatic Sea?

[@jozzieokes3422]

@@TreiberSeptim which battles?

[@KingAlton9403]

We have to remember that we have the power of hindsight, neither of them were exactly 'stupid', it was more so a consequence of hubris. Hubris from the Italians interpreting the Magyar pleas for peace as weakness, and hubris from the Magyars after completely obliterating the Italian army leading them to believe that they were invincible and could sack Venice. Of course to us, given the many historical examples we can look to, we can very easily come to the conclusion that engaging an army primarily consisting of horse archers in the open field is almost never a good idea, but the Italians mainly being driven by blind hubris couldn't have really come to a good conclusion on how that would pan out. Of course they can still be blamed for not really thinking it through. For the Magyars, I mean I don't think they had any idea how to actually do a proper naval invasion given the fact that they didn't even have a coastline or any naval experience at all. They would've never thought that the Venetians would have access to actual warships considering the Magyars have never seen them before. It's like the first time the Romans saw elephants when fighting Hannibal in the Alps.

[@jozzieokes3422]

@@KingAlton9403 thanks for the information

[@thibs2837]

It's very interesting to learn they actually did reconnaissance missions on a country scale to assess the enemy. Very modern

[@arielmarveli2673]

coupled with the fact that they are amphibious, reminds me of soviet brdms mission suite, only they can turn into t80s when needed, and actually performed both missions really well at their contemporary times compared to any 21st century army (so far).

[@FiggsNeughton]

People have always been the same my fren.

[@thibs2837]

@@FiggsNeughton well I know for a thing the Romans didn't always scout their environment and sometimes got punished hard for it, let alone scouting and assessing the entire country

[@FiggsNeughton]

@@thibs2837 Scouting is nothing new brother, and neither are tactical blunders and the fog of war.

[@cameroncasasola1620]

wierdest naval battle ever.

[@ura172]

translating this to english is "greatest naval battle ever"

[@samdumaquis2033]

Yes although the French Napoleonic cavalery capturing all the Dutch fleet is even weirder (considering ships had canons at that time) look it up

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

The magyars made the real seahorses, i imagine the barbarians holding a carrot in front of their stupid mountures to make them advance

[@KomradeCPU]

aoe2 was accurate when you fight cavalry with ships

[@SeptimoBasico-nu8uh]

​@@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014Ok, that mental image is hilarious 😂😂 It immediately made me think of minecraft, when you mount a pig and want to make it move forward.

[@brokenbridge6316]

Magyar's were the Huns of their day. But less well-known. Great video.

[@khuntasaurus88]

They are literally just huns.

[@szalard]

Between 899 and 910, the Magyars scored six great victories over the European troops, in which they wiped out the enemy armies, and in 4 of them (Battles of Pressburg, Eisenach, Ausgburg, and Rednitz), they killed the commanders of the enemy too. Unfortunately, there are so few detailed descriptions of these victories, most of whom we know only by their name and that's it. If a contemporary chronicler had written down detailed descriptions of these battles, military history would be so grateful to him.

[@invictus7736]

@@khuntasaurus88 no, there is no relation whatsoever

[@VincentvonRingelsheim]

The genetic link between Attila's European Huns and the conquering Magyars is not clearly established, which suggests that the Magyars cannot be considered direct descendants of the Huns. However, culturally, the Magyars do have legends that reference the Huns. Genetic studies have also disproven the notion that the Hungarian people originate from the Finno-Ugric group, as the earliest Hungarians do not carry the "Proto-Ugric" genetic markers. Current research indicates that the Magyar population has a mix of ancestry, including influences from Asian Huns, Avars, and Iranians, as well as some contributions from various regions. Overall, the evidence suggests that the primary "Hun" ancestry in the Magyar population likely comes from present-day Mongolia and can be traced back to the Xiongnu.

[@anotherhistoryenthusiast5874]

​@@VincentvonRingelsheim Current studies made by Klima have proven that the conqueror Magyars in fact carried the Finno - Ugric, Uralic N haplogroup. Look up the Klima study.

[@giuseppeboemi927]

What an incredible campaign filled with turn of events, thanks for entertaining us.

[@The_ZeroLine]

“Gathering intelligence is a key component of their way of war. …understanding the enemies strength, willingness to fight and more.” So, they were the only non-idiots of the time?

[@NoahBodze-pm9ok]

No, just the fastest. Magyars was the best horse riders in Europe at the time and their reconnaissance was unmatched.

[@orterves]

Hubris and fog of war is a running theme

[@chrisgriffin2579]

Also, many countries believed God would protect them, or some were just overconfident because they'd never seen warriors like them and assumed they'd be superior. Why many armies only used foot soldiers.

[@Baso-sama]

@@chrisgriffin2579 "God helps those who help themselves." :)

[@hajrakoros]

More or less. The key of success was similar to the vikings. Use unsettling, unconventional tactics smartly

[@szalard]

Thank you very much! Great video. I only want to point out one thing. In 899, when the Battle of Brenta occurred, Pannonia (the region West to the Danube) was still under the Bavarian/East Frankish rule. When the Hungarian troops turned back from Italy, the Hungarians who remained home, attacked Pannonia from the East, while the returning Hungarian troops attacked it from the West and South, thus conquering this rich province for Hungary.

[@istvansovari4208]

Én elhiszem,ön megtanulta a leckét,ami 1867 után keletkezett.Csak NEM IGAZ.A nyugati határunk az Enns.Ráadásul Pannónia fekvéséről is lehetne beszélgetni.Hunnivári zseniálisan rendbe teszi a mindenféle ostobaságot.

[@szalard]

@@istvansovari4208 Maga nagyon félreért, vagy pedig nem tud jól angolul. Én tisztán leírtam, hogy 900-ig volt a határ a Duna. Mert az a terület addig a Bajor hercegség uralma alatt állott. Miután 900-ban Gyermek Lajos visszautasította a szövetség felújítását, az őseink elfoglalták a Dunántúlt, majd a 907-es pozsonyi győzelem után a határunk kiterjedt az Ennsig. De addig nem.

[@TheMerryPrangster]

Tenyleg

[@agrippa2012]

i know very little about the magyars so its pretty cool to see this topic being covered, thanks 👏

[@AltaicGigachad]

The conquest proper of Hungary is dated at the end of the ninth century, in 896, when the seven Hungarian tribes (Nyék, Megyer, Kirt Gyarmat, Jenó, Tarján, Kér, and Keszi) and the three Kabar tribes, led by Prince Árpád, gradually filled up the Carpathian basin, except for the zones of beechwood and the coniferous forests. The "conquering Hun garians" are equivalent to the upper circle of the people (with rich furniture); some of them spoke two languages: Onogur-Turk and Ugrian-Hungarian.

[@Ardeth1]

They settled in Panonia not the Carpathian basin

[@MithridatesOfficial]

@@Ardeth1 It's roughly the same thing Ardeth. Pannonian Basin/Carpathian Basin..

[@Ardeth1]

@@MithridatesOfficial Panonia is not a basin, its a plain

[@cool06alt]

@@Ardeth1 It was a basin and marshland before being dried in late medieval era.

[@Baso-sama]

@@Ardeth1 salty romanian trying his best to explain away the conquest of the carpathian basin. :)

[@Moon-li9ki]

this is why horse archers are so annoying in rome total war

[@Baso-sama]

just use them :D a strong foot archer line can also be helpful in such a case. although if i meet an archer-heavy army, i usually just charge the horse archers into them repeatedly and win over the foot archers in melee like that.

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

Yeah its very annoying, when i use horse archers i feel dishonorable to the enemy. That should be called cowardfare

[@3rdsmite766]

@@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 horse archers should be bigger targets for the foot soldiers tho..

[@mattep74]

The computer seems to use them less than i do

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[@brunolima7402]

Another great video. Thanks for featuring these lesser known battles and conflicts. Keep up the good work.

[@elvice3262]

"They move at night like ghosts!!" terrifying 👻

[@ramiromen6595]

Man aside from the XIV century the period between the death of Charlemagne and around 1020ish is probably the crappiest for medieval Europe: Magyars, Vikings renewed North African raids and the constant anarchy of the Carolingians.

[@cool06alt]

That is if you only limit Eurova to just Western and Central Eurova. You seem to forget how Byzantine basically making the only comeback before basically failling miserably in 11th century onward.

[@aleksandarvil5718]

North African raids = Saracen raids

[@CountScarlioni]

Ironically it's probable that Charelmagne's actions helped to provoke the Vikings into attacks on western Europe in the first place. After his genocidal massacre of the pagans at Verden, it spread a wave of fear and anger throughout pagan northern Europe. It made Christians into blood enemies and fair game for attack. The first substantial Viking raids took place just a few years later and their main targets were Christian holy sites. Also, with his campaigns against the Lombards and Avars, he probably did much to provoke the future threat of the Magyars too. Maybe all of these threats could have been handled had Charlemagne's successors been capable. Sadly it was not to be.

[@ra-ge]

You mean for Western Europeans, we in the East were good

[@mihajlo7893]

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[@ProfessorM-he9rl]

Thanks for this post, much appreciated

[@darthveatay]

Ironically this same situation happened to the Hungarians except the mongols did it

[@antalbencsik4345]

Yep, almost the same situation with the camp, river, and the mongol river crossing in 1241, at Mohi.

[@mihalybormester8736]

"ironic", they keep saying that, this text is so outdated, so pathetic and crappy.

[@mihalybormester8736]

not the same

[@iDeathMaximuMII]

​@@mihalybormester8736But it's literally Ironic lmao. What's the problem? 😂

[@Fatherofheroesandheroines]

​@@mihalybormester8736ironic..as in...the same spot. That is DEFINITELY irony. You must be bored.

[@luongo7886]

The Hungarians are true master warriors from Asia!!! -- With love from Việt Nam

[@burnstick1380]

Minor side note: Arnulf of Carinthia actually has a very small home castle in the village he grew up in. It's basically just a for sided tower with around 1m thick walls. It stands as a ruin but has recently been preserved.

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[@hunor6912]

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[@malendil]

There was not really a battle thought. The German army was cut from the supply and starved and they ended it with negotiations. But the guerilla warfare and espionage methods they used to achieve this is a good story indeed.

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[@ahmedhayati3092]

In Arabic language we call the country of Hungary as مجر which literary prounonced as Majar

[@ra-ge]

In Europe they are known as Madjars too

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14:21 keeping the troops high in spirit is not the same as keeping them high ON spiritS...

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[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

It was a wonderful historical coverage video about scourge of Europe at 898- 899 AD by Magars nomadic combating contingencies focused on Northern Italy 🇮🇹.. Northern Italy cities plundered, scorched ,Italian king defeated in Brenta battle ..he escaped..thanks an amazing ( history Marche) channel for sharing this magnificent video

[@istvansovari4208]

Ugye nem baj,hogy SEMMIFÉLE várost nem perzseltek fel.

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[@KHK001]

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[@-W8WHAT]

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[@arthur-yq4ic]

berengar even prepared breakfast for the magyars

[@Legionaer666]

Their own greed was the Magyar's worst enemy.

[@KingAlton9403]

Yet another banger from HistoryMarche!

[@okanv]

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[@hotepamen6497]

For a moment at 5:24 I thought "they are eating the dogs"

[@mattep74]

Seeing an army with infantry against a nomadic army and knowing what will happen is a sign i have watched many many such battles

[@antalbencsik4345]

Thank you HM and of course for all the other videos. Greetings from Hungary! (For the Algorythm! :) )

[@stevenweasel2678]

BRILLIANT NARRATIVE/ DRAMATIC HISTORY

[@user-rg7uz8of9r]

Do you think you could do more historiographies on Indian battles such as the with the Marathas?

[@ramtin5152]

The Magyar horse archers showering the Italian camp with arrows reminds me of the Seleucid king Demetrius III Eucaerus and his army's fate in battle against the Parthians Thanks Historymarche, it was an epic video Still waiting for one that covers the battle of Anglon 543 AD though

[@sandorszabo2836]

Typical nomad tactic

[@ramtin5152]

@@sandorszabo2836 A very effective tactic (most of the times)

[@sandorszabo2836]

@@ramtin5152 the rivercrossing is one of the most difficult manouver. If the enemy knows your plan it can be tragical. But the desinformation is a typical nomad strategy/tactic too. Nomads were not better warriors than the Germans, Slavs, Romans but their armies looked like a modern army with batallions, brigades, officers, discipline, professional logistics, espionage, scouting, communications, etc.

[@bigmadafaca1020]

Following up the careful reconnaissance that lead them to victory with a goofy attempt at fighting the venitians is key to keeping up the balance

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[@Garoslol]

Damn how many arrows do they carry?

[@willywonka6487]

they typically had arrow bundles on spare horses or held by camp followers depending on situation. The strictly limited ammo of total war is kinda nonsense tbh

[@odalv316]

Can we see an episode on Volga Bulgaria? Pechenegs? Perhaps the Battle of Varna, 1201. The Battle of Klokotnitsa?

[@kananzeynalzada1900]

Can you please make more videos about the 18th century wars? There are lots of wars that can be covered involving Austria, Ottomans, Russians, Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, Prussia, Swedes, and France.

[@Freddie1980]

28:53 and it was at that point John The Deacon upon seeing the destruction of another settlement came up with idea for 'Another One Bites The Dust'

[@Mandoop8]

Damn, the Magyars were ruthless

[@benimtelefoncaliyor1dk]

At this time, the same Arab geographers (as also Constantine Porphyrogenitus) speak of the "Majghari" as Turks, no doubt because both groups of these Finno-Ugrians had been organized by Bulgars: those of the Urals by the Bulgars of Kama, those of Atelkuzu by the Onoghundur or Onogur, who in the ninth century occupied the southeastern region of the Carpathians. The name of Hungarians, to denote the Magyars, may have originated with these Onogur who mingled with them in the second half of the ninth century. Other sources link these Finno-Ugrian Magyars with another Turkic tribe, the Kabars, who are associated with the Khazars and who are believed to have given the Magyars their royal family, the Arpads. The presence of an Onogur or Kabar Turkic aristocracy among the Magyars would explain the Byzantine protocol by which, in the exchange of ambassadors under Constantine Por- phyrogenitus, Magyar chiefs were always refered to as "Princes of the Turks, ἄρχοντες τῶν Τουρκων,"

[@MadMamluk88]

Not only did they serve under the Turkic Khazars and fought with the same steppe tactics but to the untrained ear the old Hungarian language sounds similar to Turkic languages

[@tiboruhrin4080]

You can hear about Hungarians from this era, but where was the "so-called" Finno-Ugric empire that never existed? So an idiot linguist named a language family whose most famous and largest population does not appear in the name of the language family! Absolute Western decadent idiotic linguistics!

[@tiboruhrin4080]

​​@@MadMamluk88The leader of those Hungarians who negotiated with Emperor Constanin in Byzantium was called Blood Búlcsú, and he said that we are not Turks, because our ancestors were not either! Hungarian arceogeneticists have shown from the finds of contemporary migrants that 50% of those who arrived in the Carpathian Basin at that time were working servants of the Finno-Ugric commoners, 35% were Sarmatian-Hun mixed free soldiers, 15% elite leaders of Hunnic origin, such as the Turul or the House of Árpád as it is known in the West! Oh, and then I forgot that the leading and soldiering Hun-Sarmatian stratum is haplogroup R1a, i.e. even of Scythian origin in addition to the former!

[@mihalybormester8736]

@@MadMamluk88 Hungarians is not turkish, we are uralic.

[@Baso-sama]

I would like to see the citation for Árpád being from one of the three Kabar tribes. For some reason Bulgars really love to repeat this but they never mention sources.

[@adrianr6647]

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[@UCxmklssd3yrR6TqbzQdVMew]

It is amazing how formidable horse archers were since the defeat of Romans and only a thousand years later Magyars and later Mongols took it to the whole new level and ruled the world.

[@aboubakrouladabdellah6611]

Yooooo great vidio man! As always.

[@cov.teo.8131]

I wonder, What would've happened to World History if Italy experienced Magyarization ? We may never know....

[@Ardeth1]

Thank God we will never know

[@zsoltbakos685]

@@Ardeth1 lol I am hungarian but I second that

[@malendil]

There was no chance for that. Italy was successfully conquered by Germanic tribes multiple times and they were the ones to be assimilated all the time. Same for France.

[@istvansovari4208]

A magyar SOHASEM magyarosított.Ha ezt tette volna,akkor ma a Rajnától- a kínai Sárga folyóig minden magyar lenne.

[@unionsquaregrassman]

Love the “Jaws” soundtrack.

[@GMKGoji01]

Magyar, the Western Roman Empire is long gone. You don't need to sack it any further. Woah, East Francia! You don't need to sack Rome any further either!

[@AnthonyGarcia-y8t]

😎😎😎ANOTHER AWESOME AWESOME VID.

[@stevelebreton3489]

Thanks

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[@thebigone6969]

Sounds almost like a zombie apocalypse hitting medieval Italy 😮

[@Velesus101]

Initially, I read that as the Battle of Brenna. Still not disappointed I clicked.

[@KaiHung-wv3ul]

Ayy, Witcher fan!

[@Velesus101]

@@KaiHung-wv3ul That too, but the Battle of Brenna is also a real battle.

[@KaiHung-wv3ul]

@@Velesus101 Really? That's awesome. Could you tell me about it? I can't find it.

[@Velesus101]

@@KaiHung-wv3ul Brenna also known historically as Branibór, Brennaburg, and finally, as it is known today as Brandenburg. During the Early and High Middle Ages, it was a Gord and the capital of the Slavic tribe Hevelli/Stodorani and later the Duchy of Kopnica (Polish vassal) before it was finally annexed by the HRE. It was a sight of several battles and sieges in wars between Polabian Slavs, Poland, and HRE. It was probably what inspired Sapkowski to choose its name for the final battle between Northern Kingdoms and Nilfgaard since the latter is a representation of Drang nach Osten.

[@KaiHung-wv3ul]

@@Velesus101 Thanks

[@davidhunt8685]

Good one. Humility is a quality of chivalry that seems to have slipped his mind as he was offered a good way out twice and refused.

[@The_ZeroLine]

A stroke and a son, whom he had just placed on the Italian throne, die all within weeks? That’s a tough month!

[@chrishey6891]

I am no military General, but even I spotted that the envoy was dragging out the negotiations, so the Magyar could get more help and set up ready for battle! 😆

[@chaos-zc9yt]

See, that's why Hungary says that the only solution to the Russian-Ukranian conflict is peace talks and negotiations. There were peace talks at Brenta and everything resolved smoothly. There were no peace talks prior Venice and the result was catastrophic :P

[@Baso-sama]

very true :D

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Amazing detail description of the Magyar Raids as usual (Y) I don't know if you'll make a video on the Magyar raids into Muslim Spain and how they captured the Muslim Caliph for ransom but if you will it would be very interesting given that not even the Avars or the Huns have reached as far as Spain as the Magyars did.