Feature History - Great Turkish War

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[@quedtion_marks_kirby_modding]

I find it kinda poetic that the 2 powers who fought over the control of the balkans for centuaries would collapse figthing as allies in a war started in the same place.

[@Udontkno7]

History doesn’t repeat, but it sure rhymes.

[@ozkul_arda200]

It's also poetic that an austrian man would later invade Poland.

[@oaples8790]

@@ozkul_arda200 hahaha

[@aszthrotep4632]

@@ozkul_arda200 he had a partner from the east.

[@shakalpb1164]

Tells you how much sense war has

[@SushiCuervoCCG]

Historians: The ottomans wouldnt be able to expand in Europe again Paradox: Unless?!?!?!

[@DutchieTheBitter]

Merkel: Unless

[@sylvainduret9880]

Then the Winged Hussars arrived !

[@mehmetdemirci3725]

@@sylvainduret9880 cringe

[@KitchenSinkSoup]

@@mehmetdemirci3725 Double cringe

[@ls200076]

@@sylvainduret9880 The Golden Horde strikes again!

[@gogogomes7025]

i feel like playing EUIV now...

[@sragveesatluri4961]

?

[@Aenima308]

Sragvee Satluri Extra Ugly Incendiary Vaginas

[@thedapperhat8958]

@Chewbacca It was a joke my fellow human being

[@dwayne1625]

@GOGOgomes if you want to decimate your bank account sure.

[@flinflonian3870]

E x p e l l M i n o r i t y. C o n v e r t C u l t u r e.

[@matteblack2391]

"the 9 years war will last for about 9 years" Ah yes, this floor is made of floor.

[@Zelein]

Floor gang ouh

[@Edax_Royeaux]

Well, the hundred years war didn't actually last a hundred years, it was constantly turned on and off like a light switch.

[@Boooooooooo541]

Yea and the War of 1812 was more like the war of 1812, 13, 14, and 15

[@sorinzagorschi5049]

Well he wanted to said that other wars like : 100 years war was not 100 years / or 7 years war

[@lessthanpinochet]

I once saw this dude. He was made of dude.

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

I mean, expanding at that rate will definitely give your enemies an ‘Outraged’ opinion against you... and a Coalition against you.

[@francojpuerta4141]

Agressive expansion is just a number

[@antoine-louismathieu3620]

you would know an awful lot about that wouldn't you?

[@ScipionLaurentiend]

taking it from the master

[@komradblin2189]

The man speaking from his personal experience.

[@LamiNalchor]

Well, his statement is quite simple. The fascination of many people for Napolean does not come from his expansion, maybe here his military skill. It rather comes from him being a multi talent that changed the times.

[@adamlakeman7240]

One interesting thing happened in the aftermath of the Battle of Vienna when the Hapsburg forces captured the Ottoman camp . The Grand Vizier's personal harem and zoo (including giraffes) had been put to death but there were some strange sacks filled with brown beans. The Austrians at first tried eating them but on interrogating prisoners tried grinding them to powder and mixing the result with hot water. The Viennese obsession with coffee had begun.

[@HingerlAlois]

That’s probably only a legend, coffee houses existed in Venice, England etc. before 1683. Also the guy who opened the first coffee house in Vienna was an Armenian who knew coffee already from his home country.

[@napolien1310]

A zoo!? A BLOODY ZOO

[@Preussensprinz]

@@napolien1310 I mean, in siege you may just sit in your trench for a long ass time, if you can afford it why not have some fun?

[@napolien1310]

@@Preussensprinz ofc they should have some fun with board games and others, not a bloody ZOO that's way too much

[@Preussensprinz]

@@napolien1310 yeah we're not talking of your average officer who played such lame games, we're talking of the og Kara Mustafa

[@jemert96]

Byzantine Empire: *slowly collapses* Ottoman Empire: lol that'll never happen to us! *slowly collapses as well*

[@madaranotsoanonymousnowuch1539]

tbh the ottomans just collapsed and lost a huge amount of land(basically 90% of the middle east) wheras the byzantines fought till the bitter end all the way until they were reduced to constantinople.

[@sauloreis5427]

@@madaranotsoanonymousnowuch1539 Os Bizantinos sendo atacados de todos os lados, o que você queria ? Pelo menos os Bizantinos durou mais de 1000 anos

[@Seraph2077]

@@madaranotsoanonymousnowuch1539 The romans from Constantinople made the empire last more one millenium, bringing a golden age to the mankind, and their emperor died like a hero. Now, we have the ottomans, wich empire collapse in less than four centuries, was the sick man of Europe, and their most know act was the destruction of the last piece of the Roman Empire.

[@whooosh]

@@Seraph2077 And they left no legacy behind except the genocide of Pontic Greeks, Armenians and Assyrians ... also the main reason why the Balkan is such a shithole and battle royale area today

[@Vrangelrip]

@@whooosh the last part is incorrect as the reason is that (1) United Kingdom and France betrayed the Arab Revolt so that instead of the Hashimites taking Arabia it only got Hejaz and was then conquerd by Najd and (2) the US attack on Iraq

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

So... let me get this straight... We have Germans, Russians, *AND* Poles working together against a common enemy? Well, golly gee, I guess miracles DO exist!

[@jackietang3789]

I see this as an absolute win!

[@Udontkno7]

jinxed the next 300 years

[@ulascanergin6390]

When a threat becomes too large to stand alone you tend to team up against it. It is basic power politics. In the holy league's case it was until ottımans became too weak to defend themselves against any of those, especially against austrian and russian empires, states.

[@quentintin1]

Russia and the HRE (Germany was not yet a thing) had not much issues with each other as they had no common land borders and both were Christian countries the Commonlwealth was a bit of an annoyance but at that time it had slowed it's expansion and the little border wars were ending in stalemates or with very little gains don't tend to gather much hard feelings between nations, and it was peak European politcs so enemies of yesterday become today trade partners trouble started once the German states and Russia figured they could carve themselves a nice chunk of Poland and the latter couldn't do much about it

[@DirkusTurkess]

All they needed was the power of friendship.

[@farisal9348]

Last time I was this early the Ottomans were still besieging Constantinople

[@vincentmalab3289]

"When the Winged Hussars arrived" in the comment section, here we go...

[@elonchan4883]

A fellow Hussar

[@rognarkgastrer8191]

Sabaton

[@blueeclipsestudios7083]

COMING DOWN THE MOUNTAINSIDE

[@макслюлюкин]

Russian Streltsy put Gulyai Gorod, an improved version of wagenburg, and calmly destroyed this Polish heavy cavalry ic.pics.livejournal.com/awrus7/35373874/34560/34560_original.jpg media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/21/20614/Gul_Gor_1.jpg

[@cmdr.lochagos]

макс люлюкин ???? What is this comment even saying?

[@lovablesnowman]

A cry for help in time of need....

[@bycreay3647]

@Michael Hjorth 60 days of siege outnumbered and weeeeeeeeeeak

[@TaraZaraChara]

Sent a message to the skies, wounded soldiers left to die.

[@eazy8579]

Dedication, dedication, They're outnumbered 15 to one And the battle's begun

[@pajeirussaurio1405]

@@eazy8579 THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED

[@x2ernal357]

@@pajeirussaurio1405 COMING DOWN THE MOUNTAINSIDE

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Here’s the obligatory *then the Winged Hussars arrived*

[@LamiNalchor]

What would we the issue with that?

[@AbliusKarfax]

Coming down from mountainside

[@nicoangelobado9913]

A lot people DON'T GET IT huh. It's the Sabaton song.

[@MA-ty6xr]

Okay, KIM JONG UN. I see you everywhere lol

[@LamiNalchor]

@@nicoangelobado9913 I just found out and the comment actually is everywhere. A quite tacky song, at that.

[@ilhamionur]

It's Ironic how Those European "allies" Poland has fought to save will partition it in less than 100 years.

[@jurtra9090]

@@theresecoco1887 it's fact tho

[@enjoymfs9715]

@@theresecoco1887 We were nighmares of your ancestors. Keep crying konstantine

[@enjoymfs9715]

@@theresecoco1887 what is your ethnicity. We were just beaten by england completely. Rest is loser

[@enjoymfs9715]

@@theresecoco1887 LoL, austrian 😂😂 your dreams cannot even reach where my ancestors's power has reached.

[@enjoymfs9715]

@@theresecoco1887 Look, you guys hate us while we Don't even care about you which shows we hurted your People a lot. People in Turkey Don't even know where austria is.

[@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes]

"It wasn't until the fall of Constantinople in 1453 that the empire had locked itself into a path into Europe and against christendom "? Not really sure what you're talking about here as the Ottomans had already had a concrete foothold in the Balkans over 100 years before the fall of Constantinople. They already had feudatory control over Serbia off and on and had control over pretty much everything BUT Constantinople and peninsular Greece at that point. Really, they were already like half their furthest extent into the Balkans before they even took Constantinople. Just missing Wallachia and Hungary. There were even already able to crush a crusader army at the Battle of Nicopolis. They then went on to defeat ANOTHER Crusade in 1444. Seems like they were already into Europe and against christendom, tbh.

[@erenu8292]

Let's add to that the tired old cliche of framing this war as Islam vs. Christendom. In reality, there were muslims fighting for the Poles and Christians fighting for the Ottomans throughout this war. This was not a very nuanced presentation of the power-play.

[@boboddyb2217]

It's incredibly boring and downright wrong to frame medieval europe conflicts and wars as "CHRISTIANITY VERSUS ISLAM!". Ottomans were good friends and trading partners with venice for a long time, while also expanding south towards Mamluks and east towards Persia. There was a lot of strife between the pope and byzantium as well as other orthodox kingdoms in the balkans. Many central and western european wars happened despite both countries being christian. A large part of the Reconquista was the constant infighting between muslim emirs and caliphs of North Africa and Iberia, and the melting culture pots allowed for easier conquest. Sicily was ruled by both Muslims and Christians, with most conflicts on the island being entirely unrelated to religion. But nooo... it's always somehow Christians vs Muslims.... Even the commonwealth during the deluge was attacked and cooperated in attacking other christian countries just to survive. I can't tell if this dude is trying to push something here or if he actually views history in this shallow way.

[@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes]

@@boboddyb2217 I definitely agree with both of you, but even if he does want to frame it as some tired, played out, ahistorical "battle of civilizations" between Christianity and Islam, he's over a century too late by singling out Constantinople. The hyper-focus on Constantinople and acting like the Ottomans weren't a relevant power until then feeds even more into the "battle of civilizations" angle. I don't know what he's going for with that to be honest. I don't feel like he's the type who'd do that for modern political means. I think he just has a really shallow view on it despite being a history channel. I've noticed a lot of history commenters deliver bad reads on historical events when they're trying to do these "overview for context" bits to get to their main topic

[@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes]

Also needless to say, the Ottomans were nowhere close to "one of the largest caliphates" and the way that was phrased didn't even make sense in context.

[@darkrider95bilmemney82]

@@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes they were the largest caliphate though.

[@yankee3875]

Twitter user:” Non-western countries cannot be imperialist” Ottomans:”Then what was I doing the whole time?”

[@ulascanergin6390]

In that sense all empires are imperialist but no what happened during those days are expension thus it is expansionism and yes all empires are expansionist but no, not all empires can be imperialist. States needs certain conditions and means to do that.

[@mr.pickle4847]

Also *coughs in Japanese

[@95bekirable]

Left wing is trying to recruit Muslims as allies, a desperate attempt.

[@LamiNalchor]

@@ulascanergin6390 Does not compute.

[@TheGAMERzz4]

@@ulascanergin6390 Expansionist IS imperialist and even if not, the Ottomans definitely were imperialists, hence the conquering of non turkish peoples and the promotion of ottoman way of life.

[@JoeSmith-sl9bq]

"Fall of Constantinople The Empire had locked onto a path into Europe"- The Ottomans already expanded into the Balkans, conquering most of Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia, by 1453. The Osmangolu dynasty always preferred to focus on fighting Christians

[@oyunminotoru4231]

False. I'm suggest you to research 1.Selim's life, almost exclusively he fought against Muslim countries such as the Mamluks and the Safavids. Yavuz Sultan Selim also grandson of Fatih Sultan Mehmet who conqueror of Istanbul.

[@ibrahimyilmaz4861]

Arkthos no you are false. Sultan Selim came AFTER the conquest of Cosntantinople. So the you even proved your own point false. The Ottomans always preferred to fight Europe which does not mean that other powers weren’t fought

[@JoeSmith-sl9bq]

@@ibrahimyilmaz4861 Fall of Constantinople- 1453 Battle of Kosovo Field- 1389 Therefore, the Ottomans were deep in Europe centuries before the fall of Constantinople. My point was that the Ottomans were locked onto a path into Christian lands before 1453, so how am I false?

[@igneous061]

@@JoeSmith-sl9bq its just turks trying to change history....and obviously their big shame called battle at Kosovo field....

[@ardagurbuz6924]

@@igneous061 Turks won both battles of Kosovo though, why exactly was it a shame?

[@HistoryHustle]

And he's back! Great video once again.

[@abbcc5996]

can you check up on him?

[@iansterlin7619]

Dude, you didn't even mention Prince Eugene of Savoy, the most important general of the war and the greatest Austrian general in history. You know, the guy who actually won at Zenta?

[@TheGAMERzz4]

Not even Napoleon could convince anyone to NOT overlook him D;

[@liveforever9888]

He was French.

[@iansterlin7619]

@@liveforever9888 By birth, but he was Austrian by service

[@oldgamer9992]

He did mentioned zenta.. ​@@iansterlin7619

[@johncoelho3278]

It’s worth noting that the ottomans were still a great power for a long time after this and the ottoman army at Vienna was mostly Transylvanian and Hungarian militia with only a small group of professionals involved. It could be argued that the ottoman decline was caused more by its inability to adapt to changing conditions rather than one lost war.

[@Runo1923]

2 things finished the Ottomans; geographical explorations and industrial revolution.

[@عليياسر-ذ5ب]

@@Runo1923 Jesus intended to destroy South American civilizations and cities

[@astrodomain]

Thats true the Ottomans used outdated methods for most things and that weakened the empire.

[@oldrabbit8290]

6:16 why? why did the Ottoman just declare war, then wait an entire winter - giving the Habsburg time to find allies - before attack? what's wrong with the good old "mobilize your army, declare war and jump on your unprepared enemy" strategy?

[@shivmalik9405]

The army would suffer heavy casualties due to winter had it attempted to march

[@vinc2303]

It was taking time to form such a huge force in those times, therefore, their enemies would know they were forming their military forces. So you would need to prepare your military campaign during the winter to be ready to go invade the enemy at the end of spring in the hope to have the control of your military objective by the start of fall. So if the enemy had spies or merchant in the enemy land, they could get the information of the preparation of the army(send calls to the vassals and prepare the weaponnery(the big guns and shit).

[@cagriozkan1936]

Kind of an action was very very dishonorable. At that time all european kings were betraying eachother but this is unimaginable for ottomans.(khalif and emperor) Ottoman was holding such a big lands(even till somalia- yes somalia-) with only very few soldier mainly prestige and legitemacy. Prestige, legitemacy and fair management was more important than lands in that time. For example crimea, libya, chad(for a short time) and many others become willingly part of Empire. It is little bit difficult to understand in today's time. It is nearly impossible for europeans. because of "Ottoman image" in their minds 🙂. In Ottoman Empire a simple black guy can become a palace secretary. Which can be equivelant today's minister/viceminister or 2-3 star general. Understanding ottomans is difficult 😂. I hope you get your answer.

[@PhantomW100]

@@cagriozkan1936 sounds like Propaganda but ok.

[@surriyajabeen2646]

They weren't in a hurry

[@blahlbinoa]

AND THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVE! COMING DOWN THE MOUNTAIN SIDE!

[@elonchan4883]

And Blahlbinoa arrived!

[@maximgwiazda344]

Can we talk about how awesome his pronounciation of Polish-Lithuanian names is in this video?

[@fatherceltics2379]

The age of discovery and the lead up to the napoleonic wars are VERY underrated periods in history and is in fact mu favorite period. Thank you for bringing attention to it

[@dominicguye8058]

Disagree on the second one. The Seven Years' War, the American Revolutionary War, and the French Revolutionary Wars are covered frequently, albeit not in detail.

[@akselistad346]

eu4 moment

[@eazy8579]

The Academic name for the period is “Early Modern Period”

[@ichimaru96]

i always find it strange hearing people call sobieski "john" it just seems more fitting to call him jan

[@lucidnonsense942]

Janek? Seriously though, if John is Jan, what's the Polish version of Ian? Or is Ian just anglicised Greco-Slavic Jan?

[@nathanielcrosby2426]

@@lucidnonsense942 Ian is the Scottish Gaelic form of John

[@CKyIe]

I pronounce his name as john, lol.

[@historyrhymes1701]

In Bulgaria we had many monarchs named Ivan and in western historiography they are mostly referred to as "John". This is quite logical though. Jan , Ivan and John are all equivalents of the same Christian name.

[@emc8476]

@@historyrhymes1701 In Romania we have Ioan instead of John It is basically the same. So many countries use derivatives from the name John

[@marvelfannumber1]

There's some pretty bad Ottoman history here. For one, the 'Ottoman Decline' thesis, which presupposes that the Ottoman Empire went down a 200 year long, irreversible decline following the Siege of Vienna is vastly discredited in modern historiography. It's "Rome fell because of Christianity and/or moral decadence" levels of outdated. Really, the Ottoman Empire for the vast majority of the 18th Century was doing just fine. They were still considered a European Great Power, and were largely at peace. Just because expansion stopped, does not mean a decline set in, prosperity is about more than military conquest. Even during the 19th Century, when things started going south for the Empire, there was not an inevitable decline. Sultans like Mahmud II and Abdulmejid I were able to enact a whole range of reforms, and even stopped the Russian Empire (with help from the UK and France) from carving them up. Even as late as 1913 I think they had pretty decent odds of survival, with Empire's death sentence being the disasterous decision to join the Central Powers in WWI. There's also some weird 'clash of civilizations' background narrative going on here. That the Ottomans were some kind of evil, Muslim Orc Empire that was obsessed with conquering all of Europe. The Ottomans were just like any other Empire, they were driven by power politics. They had just as much an intention of conquering Europe as any other European power, if not less, seeing as they also had plenty of land to contest in Africa and the Middle East. Even if the Ottomans had taken Vienna, they probably wouldn't have pushed much further, as their supply lines would have been stretched massively.

[@omgwtfhaxfan1221003]

i find this wall of text to be... absolutely halal.

[@BountyFlamor]

Well, you could say it declined from this point if you look at some features: It stopped expanding, it went on losing most wars against European powers and compared to western Europe it stopped modernising. In the 19. century Egypt fought two wars against the Ottomans and would have beaten and perhaps disintegrated them if it wasn't for European powers to stop Egypt.

[@marvelfannumber1]

@@BountyFlamor *It stopped expanding* Expansion is not a measure of prosperity. For example, see: Pax Romana *it went on losing most wars* Not in the 18th Century, infact during that time it won about as many wars as it lost, although most ended in stalemate. *compared to western Europe it stopped modernising* By the later 19th Century they were ahead of many smaller countries in Europe, and if we're talking "modernising" in terms of liberal reforms, the Ottomans were certainly ahead of countries like Germany or Russia, atleast during the constitutional periods. *In the 19. century Egypt fought two wars against the Ottomans* I think it's worth noting that Mehmed Ali Pasha was not an Egyptian, he was an Albanian, and a previous Ottoman subject. The fact that people like him were able to rise within the Ottoman government and fill the power vacuum in Egypt like that, to me, speaks of the Ottoman system's strengths during this time. It's also worth noting that the Ottomans had been completely exhausted by crisis after crisis by that point. Dealing with the Janissaries, the Greeks, Great Power Intervention, all in a very quick timespan. The subsequent decades of the 19th Century were comparatively peaceful, atleats until 1877.

[@SousukeAizen421]

@@marvelfannumber1 not every war is equal in term of impact, ottoman lost 2 major wars against Russia in 18th century, 8k russian troops defeated 40k ottomans during that war, their most humiliating defeat yet at that time, that war forced ottoman to pay a huge war reparation to Russian Empire and cede important territory like Crimea to Russian Empire, the treaty that ended the war also allows Russia to intervene ottoman internal affairs as a protector of orthodox christian

[@SCARFACE07OWNER]

@@SousukeAizen421 Ottoman empire's real og's were no more in the system bro 4.Mehmet deinstituted them aka the devsirmes, orthodox children educated in palace. Last devsirme was fazil ahmet pasa. Also the ottomans lost crimea because of a guy with no formal education, who became grand admiral of the fleet. He was warned that the russians were coming but he laughed. That idiott thought that mediterreanen sea was a lake bro. When he was surprised by the attack and survived with luck, after war he called the venice dog's ambassador asking why he didn't inform him of a build river from north germany to the adriatic sea. LMAO. Also baltaci mehmed pasa was a lumberjack, cutting wood for imperial army and he became grand vizir. Tatars,swedes surrounded the russians he came, instead of attacking he was BRIBED instead of accepting the money and killing, he just accepted and went away??? Do you understand what I mean. There was a nepotist system. The ottoman power you europeans think of is because of the devsirme's not with kara mustafa pasa and after, they are inferior compared with them. They built the empire. Also during great turkish war these were the grand vizirs, commanders of the army: a helvaci ( date) educated guy so imperial kitchen education ( with links to kara mustafa pasa), a horsekeeper of kara mustafa pasa, a broom of kara mustafa pasa, now a normal imperial educated guy with no links to kara mustafa pasa or koprulu dynasty. Since he is alone, with intrigue nepotist mustafa pasha's family excomunicated him to rhodes and killed him xD, a janissary agha ( killed by koprulu family), koprulu member with imam education, an imam, kara mustafa pasha's nephew: no education, a horserider with imperial education who saved belgrade and then went horseriding, not interested in state affairs when there is war??? , no education, janissary soldier, koprulu family member with no education and war ended with treaty. This is a huge difference with the devsirmes man lmao tf is this nepotist shït.

[@MahDryBread]

Oh hey, isn't this right before the setting of Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword? If I remember right, that game's story was based loosely in this area and time period.

[@stockwortbronn2750]

Nah, It was just before the events in this video. Game starts after Cossacks win battles near Zhovti Vody, Korsun', Piliavtsi, Zborov (Don't remember if it was before or after defeat near Berestechko). In the beggining of the video there are some sentences about Cossack uprising - there the game starts.

[@jurtra9090]

WFAS sets in 1650s

[@stockwortbronn2750]

@@jurtra9090 Yeah. Those battles I named were in 1648-1649, Berestechko was in 1651.

[@infomatters.]

Which Fossil did you pick?

[@Aeyekay0]

Events that happened 100’s and 1000’s of years ago indeed affect the present day. Good video

[@Nusantara_88]

Love turkish from Indonesia🇮🇩

[@stevensonbak]

I'm a simple man; I see Winged Hussars, I click.

[@fatherceltics2379]

SAME

[@elonchan4883]

Ah, a hussar

[@fatherceltics2379]

@@elonchan4883 Ah, a weeb

[@oguzhangorgun6918]

It is funny to see Christian illustrations of Ottoman army portrays it as like badouins. Most of the Ottoman elite infantry force was converted balkan christians and elite cavalry force was heavily armoured sipahis. Ottoman army was one of the earliest empires in europe to have standardized army. They were not a band of saracens.

[@JunMayPark-gk6mz]

You mean that 1 black archer next to the Arab archer on the Ottoman side? The Ottoman forces were multiracial and multi religious. Those soldiers were most likely levies from vasals in Arabia and Africa. Similar to the Serbian Kings serving the Ottomans in the Middle Eastern wars.

[@jamestaylor3623]

"Vienna was under siege until September... THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED"

[@boruchan7636]

COMING DOWN THE MOUNTAIN SIDE

[@momcilomarkovic8435]

@@boruchan7636 THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED.

[@limanyi489]

Momcilo Markovic COMING DOWN, THEY TURNED THE TIDE!

[@cRobbone88]

Finally you are back! Welcome back! Congrats!

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

The history king has blessed us with another upload

[@mahadismail9569]

I think I seen ur comments on somali videos, was it u or just a guy with same name and profile pic?

[@rodrigox.8037]

imagine seeing 3000 winged hussars and 15 thousand others chargind at you, i would feel pretty demoralized as well, and in need for new pants

[@marcvsivnivsbrvtvs]

That need for new pants would last only for a few seconds though...

[@dogehand693]

the whole point of the wings was to scare the crap out of you Ottomans: no you can't just strap those things onto your men and scare off our horses and troops Poles: Haha, wings go thunder

[@tobleroneyumm]

@@dogehand693 The Wings were more to scare off enemy horses. The winged hussars were basically anti-cav.

[@alfabrovatr]

@@tobleroneyumm ottomans had some kind of same cavalry named deliler or deli (crazies crazy?) but I dont know much about them or their quantities in general in ottoman army

[@azonezon3219]

@@alfabrovatr The Ottoman Empire knew Hussaria very well. The Battle of Klushyn before Hussaria captured Moscow. The Russian forces 35-48 thousand. Poland -Hussaria 5,600. Polish-Turkish War The Battle of Khotyn- Hussaria 1700 cavalry. After the battle of Vienna. Turkey did not want to fight Husaria anymore.

[@perfectlyfine1675]

Feature History actually uploaded a video! Hope is not yet lost in 2020!

[@lecisteim_1945]

Yes, I have always wondered about this war, thank you.

[@thegunslinger8806]

*AND THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED* I declare jihad on you for not playing the song

[@wonderchiken9883]

That doesn't make sense. Jihad means spiritual struggle with one self, not terrorism. Also a fight against injustice not to create injustice.

[@kostikasjannakis1377]

Crusade*

[@abloodorange5233]

wonder chiken wow a person who actually knows there stuff! Wow

[@damiantodzikidzik2312]

@@wonderchiken9883 wellp try to tell that ISIS xD

[@ibrahimyilmaz4861]

Weet Bix They are not Islamic extremists. Extremists means that they are extremely Islamic, which they no doubt aren’t.

[@ArtinColor]

Love this! One of the channels that inspired me to start my own art history education channel!

[@rekoken2911]

8:44 the song is called Chandelier by Deskant KZbin channels need to provide music sources in their description

[@someguysomeone3543]

Do you know the one that plays at 7:30?

[@rekoken2911]

@@someguysomeone3543 unfortunately no, at least for now

[@emilturangi7145]

0:44 Little mistake here, the eight end star is not Ottoman symbvol, they used five end star. Eight end star would be used only in Azerbaijan flag and coat of arms.

[@Artur_M.]

I was about to finish writing a comment under another video, pay my daily tribute to a certain green owl that tries to teach me German and go to bed, then the winged hussars arrived in my notifications.

[@briankearney5994]

I finally made the connection that the Siege of Vienna was a mere 35 years after Westphalia (End of the 30 years war, one of the most brutal conflicts in history). Probably helps explain the confidence of the Ottomans and the ability of the empire to start reconquering territory afterwards as I'm guessing the HRE was just about getting on it's feet again after such huge population losses.

[@cengizsogutlu]

So incorreect 1:34 was not empire it was just beylik a county it became sultanate after capturing prusa and empire after conquests of several kingdoms and city states such as constantinapol bulgaria bosnia etc etc

[@HMASbogan]

"Then the winged _Hoosars_ arrived"

[@tarasdubenskyy508]

Thank you, looks very professional. 17th century was especially bloody for Ukraine. Also it was when Ukraine started loosing its independence to Russian Moscow state. Cossacks are a very interesting phenomenon, they were kind of border blazers called by locals as protectors of Orthodox faith (threatened by Muslim Tartars and pressed by Catholic Poles). Purportedly they emerged as a separate walk of life like samurai caste in Japan. There were two main types of Cossacks - 1. Ukrainian Cossacks called Zaporozhian Cossacks (their base was in Southern Ukraine Dniepr river basin and all this area of riverine islets, marshes and steppes) 2. Russian Don river Cossacks. Weird but simple way to differ between them was that Ukrainians normally would prefer moustache and Russian Don Cossacks preferred only beards. Lastly one small remark though Ottoman Empire was not a caliphate (min 8:30)

[@nathanielrourke8886]

Glad to see you are still around

[@elemperadordemexico]

When the Winged Hussars arrived in my birthday

[@tspoon772]

When the winged hussars arrived A cry for help in time of need, await relief from holy league 60 days of siege, outnumbered and weak Sent a message to the sky, wounded soldiers left to die Will they hold the wall or will the city fall Dedication Dedication They're outnumbered 15 to one And the battle's begun Then the winged hussars arrived Coming down the mountainside Then the winged hussars arrived Coming down they turned the tide As the days are passing by and as the dead are piling high No escape and no salvation Trenches to explosive halls are buried deep beneath the walls Plant the charges there and watch the city fear Desperation Desperation It's a desperate race against the mine And a race against time Then the winged hussars arrived Coming down the mountainside Then the winged hussars arrived Coming down they turned the tide Cannonballs are coming down from the sky Janissaries are you ready to die? We will seek our vengeance eye for an eye You'll be stopped upon the steps of our gate On this field you're only facing our hate But back home the sultan's sealing your fate We remember In September That's the night Vienna was freed We made the enemy bleed! Storm clouds, fire and steel Death from above make their enemy kneel

[@rognarkgastrer8191]

And here we go again.

[@christos1698]

Grüße nach Österreich von Griechenland/Deutschland 💪

[@lucidnonsense942]

@@christos1698 eww...

[@ou3646]

Oh yeah

[@goldeneagle3088]

Watch *The Ottoman Empire* made by the kalingrad General youtuber. The funniest and best thing you will ever see.

[@goldeneagle3088]

@@cossih7548 same

[@biliminsrlar5752]

That video is the best Countryball video I ever saw.

[@aysenur6761]

@@biliminsrlar5752 reis her yerdesin ya

[@mateislavnicu3886]

this video really explains a lot of stuff I wasn't sure about before! Really cool!

[@karaliusking6833]

Finally found a channel that said Poland Lithuania not just Poland. Thanks a lot 🇱🇹

[@lucidnonsense942]

P-L Commonwealth was best Poland... It was an ethnically heterogeneous and comparatively liberal state; before it got drunk on nationalism and religion. Yeah, I know, sometimes Poland's survival as an idea depended on forging a philosophical rallying point; but it left a chauvinistic streak that's still playing out. Unfortunate.

[@mixererunio1757]

Funny that Lithuanians think Lithuanian part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is them. Lithuania back then was just a region not a state. And it was inhabited by Belarusians rather than Lithuanians. So sadly my dear Lithuanian brother he's not talking about you but about Belarusians, who are true successors of Great Principality of Lithuania. But we still love you, our Lithuanian Brothers. Much love from Poland. 🇱🇹🇵🇱

[@modisp]

@@mixererunio1757 Shadap historical revanchist. Trying to explain that Lithuanian in Lithuanian means Belarus :D Yeah right.

[@kris.b.7615]

@@mixererunio1757 First of all, it was state. Second it does not matter who inhabits the most of the country, what matters is who is in charge. And in charge were Lithuanians, although polonized, but still, Lithuanians. Because of your logic British Empire was run by Indians.

[@jackietang3789]

Mehmet the Conqueror: *exists* Eastern Europe: *"NOW THIS IS AN AVENGERS LEVEL THREAT"*

[@vascodegama6095]

Okey boys team up for the biggest enemy

[@whatewer23]

Here's the obligatory *I WAS CHOSEN BY HEAVEN* ...no, wait, wrong song.

[@Armorius2199]

Are you going to cover the Second Boer War??

[@GustavTremendous]

I feel like this is a great addition to Kaliningrad General’s video on the “Ottoman Empire but SrPelo references” for that one part where the Poles canned Turkey.

[@pawed3225]

Polish lithuanian commonwealth wasn't as strong as it used to be and it was during it's collapse these times

[@PhysicstIsaac]

Chilling here at 00:36 Watching youtube cus I cant sleep

[@Kneorlan]

It is worth mentioning that the Leopold I the Holy Roman Emperor didn't even fake tipping his hat to Sobieski after he came with combined German-Commonwealth forces, and lifted the siege, which led to outrage around Polish troops. He was unthankful. He then didn't want to pursue Ottomans immediately as such a campaign would make Sobieski first conqueror and he wanted to lead his own campaign - I guess that's just politics but it perfectly shows how you cannot expect gratitude and fairness in dem politics.

[@HingerlAlois]

Well the Austrians managed to piss off also the Saxons (led by Johann Georg III. the Elector of Saxony) who had helped with around 10.000 soldiers during the Battle of Vienna, but given that the Saxons were protestants they apparently didn’t feel welcome and left only three days after the battle to move their troops back to Saxony. The Saxons got only a tiny share of the plunder, which was probably one of the reasons why they were angry and left.

[@martig1000]

@@HingerlAlois Interesting. There are many connections between Poland and Saxony

[@igneous061]

But dont forget about how battle at Kosovo postponed otoman invasions for almost one century

[@RIFLQ]

This is so complicated, but hey, at least they don't waste all of it by suddenly became ally in the future..

[@bulgarianreaper6587]

WHEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED *guitar solo plays*

[@yevheniishyshko7961]

It's actually pretty awesome to hear someone mention the Ukrainian Cossacks as an actually valuable part of history, as almost nobody knows about them.

[@HingerlAlois]

The Nine Years War started in 1688, not 1686. Parts of the HRE troops were thus rather recalled in 1688 not in 1686. Belgrade was conquered in 1688 by the HRE troops under the command of the Bavarian elector Maximilian II. Emmanuel. The Bavarian troops (and also further German troops) were then redeployed to the HRE (deployed to nowadays southern Germany) to defend it against the French under Louis XIV during the Nine Years War. Also some German countries joined the fight against France that hadn’t supported the fight against the Ottomans, for example Brandenburg (which later became Prussia) deployed soldiers against France.

[@HingerlAlois]

One should also mention the Second Battle of Mohács in 1687, when the troops of the HRE destroyed an Ottoman Army which allowed them to conquer large territories from the Ottomans and as a result the Hungarians crowned a prince of the House of Habsburg as their king. The Imperial Army under Charles of Lorraine was round about 60.000 strong, when he moved his army to a different location the Ottomans decided to attack the 20.000 strong left wing of the Imperial Army which was commanded by the Elector of Bavaria Maximilian II. Emmanuel. The Ottoman Army was also round about 60.000 strong and outnumbered the left wing of the Imperial Army during its attack at least 2 to 1, but they suffered a major defeat. The HRE troops suffered around 600 killed, the Ottomans lost an estimated 10.000 and also a whole bunch of cannons, flags and other nice treasures were captured. The tent of the Grand Vizier that was captured during the battle is in the Bavarian Army museum in Ingolstadt. The Grand Vizier Sarı Süleyman Paşa was later executed by the Ottomans for this defeat.

[@donalddudd2105]

I bet the grand vizier was sari after this battle.

[@Revenge221]

Another excellent video!

[@Argacyan]

Others already wrote this, but: The framing of the Ottoman situation in the balkans before the battle of Vienna, "Ottoman Decline" and the framing of this as some ethno-religious conflict has been vastly defeated in the realm of historians & science. That this topic has been covered is good, it's also good that the plight of jews after Ottoman defeat is mentioned (people like to leave this one out), the way in which it was tackled however is subpar for Feature History.

[@paulleitner8726]

I needed this video more then I could have ever guessed

[@GoryJason23]

Your videos are always so well made and informative. If you ever have time, I would love to see you do a video covering the Hatfield-McCoy feud. It may not be that interesting to many people but I find it fascinating. Good stuff as always :)

[@LionKing-ew9rm]

1:35 Haven't you ever heard of the Crusade of Nicopolis?! The battle had already begun long before the fall of Constantinople!

[@mateuszjokiel2813]

Also the cursade of Varna some 9 years before the fall pf Constantinople. Besides, the fall of Constantinople really wasn't as big of a deal. The Russians even celebrated it in a way, and the papacy had its tensions with the Byzantine Empire anyway.

[@viliussmproductions]

Austrians payed the PLC back very nicely :^)

[@mojezyciejestdokitu2515]

Osman had to be helped

[@brianmcelroy4733]

You sir. You are one of my favorite humans. Another great video! Cheers

[@Papciopolak]

Very good pronunciations, I applaud you for than! Most foreign content creators are to lazy to check how to pronounce Polish names!

[@bharatasani]

Mount & blade wfas made me interested in this time period.

[@taggebagge]

The picture at 11:51 is from the Battle of Belgrade in 1456 in which the Hungarians successfully defended the city. One of the towers of the city had been taken and the Ottoman flag with crescent and moon had been raised, in the chaos of battle allegedly Titus Dugovic, who is seen to the right, would tackle down the standard-bearer making the both of them fall to their death. Though maybe the historical account is false, it is a symbol of self-sacrifice in the service of God.

[@greatwolf5372]

He died a noble death indeed

[@robertcurry389]

HE MADE THE REFERENCE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@favorius]

There are several big battles before Zenta, Mohacs and Salankamen. Battle of Salankamen was especially unlucky for Ottomans because their commander in chief who was their best general and could reverse fortunes of war, was shot and dead. Still, even if the winged hussars did not arrive and Vienna captured, Ottoman decline was more deep and widespread, it could not reverse the ultimate fall of the empire.

[@mehdin7282]

The king has returned!

[@YunusEmre-cv4dy]

Eugene of savoty is 1000 times worth to mention than sobieski. Sobieski's role is overrated. The main general of coalition was the Prince Eugene. He had many victories but among his battles it was the Battle of Zenta that Destroyed Turkish Empire's army

[@YunusEmre-cv4dy]

@Tariq ibn ziyad yes he is more important then sobieski too by the way after wien Turks manage to defeat sobieski :D. I still consider Eugen is the most important figure of his time. Fun fact Prince Eugen also was mentor of Frederick the Great. Frederick was a young officer under his command

[@alienworm1999]

11:33 "and so was the long, long, very long decline of the Ottoman empire." Byzantine Empire: "First time?"

[@sztallone415]

yes but the Byzantines bounced back at least three times from almost imminent collapse, the Ottoman decline was basically set in stone from this point forward.

[@daredevil3098]

@@sztallone415 same for Ottomans after Timurid invasion, empire was collapsing if there was No Sultan Mehmet Çelebi

[@sztallone415]

@@daredevil3098 That's true. Looking at them from earlier start dates, they could have just as easily been defeated by others during their long way to ascension, but there was always a strong Sultan.

[@mateuszjokiel2813]

@@sztallone415 And there were strong sultans after Vienna as well. The Empire did just fine in the 18th and parts of the 19th century, its decline was in no way started by Vienna. That's some outdated arse historiography for a 2020 video tbh

[@sztallone415]

@@mateuszjokiel2813 having a strong sultan is fine and dandy, but they experienced economic decline, and in tech they were far behind W-Europe from then on. after vienna when could they mount a strong offensive, especially against european powers?

[@johnnybadboy3475]

“Elected to King”

[@Alanssil]

Yeah, as far as I remember at that time, since the line of royal nobility in Poland was broken, the nobles would house elections for kings

[@johnnybadboy3475]

das crazy

[@emc8476]

the szlachta would chose a king that had the most influence with them The szlachta was the polish nobility that were the privileged as fuck class. Very strong and corrupt sometimes.

[@Cyricist001]

@@emc8476 Sometimes? If not for them Poland wouldn't have been erased from the world map. They crippled the Polish armed forces by voting against national interests, often because of bribes.

[@mateuszjokiel2813]

@@Cyricist001 Often? More like every bloody time at some point lmao

[@路易斯アルバート]

11:19 The Real Uraaa from here.

[@rognarkgastrer8191]

Comment section in a nutshell: 50% Winged Hussars arrived 45% Praising feature history 5% Actual opinion 1% EU4 0.69% lies

[@brandtlucasbrandt]

You forgot comments about the missing intro and piano.

[@rognarkgastrer8191]

@@brandtlucasbrandt Yes.

[@aysenur6761]

That percentages tho...

[@jorgegalindo658]

nice video man great really.

[@Dk-tt4yc]

3:52 *Crimean Tatars not Tartars Tartar is a steak

[@тито-к9в]

i was wondering how far i’d have to scroll lol

[@SteelyBud]

So that's what a Grand Vizier is! I always wondered - one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs is a percussion-heavy instrumental called "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party (Part 2)."

[@rayyansagheer6]

If Mehmet The Conqueror had lived for a little more, Eastern Europe would have fallen. That's why Europe celebrated his death " The Great Eagle is gone" He was indeed the next Saladin of the Muslims

[@daveduhlinny4844]

If Mehmet The Conqueror had access to Skillshare with its thousands of classes in design, business, and more, Eastern Europe would have fallen.

[@cgt3704]

what about suleiman the magnifivent. he is magnificent for a reason

[@rayyansagheer6]

@@daveduhlinny4844 yes yes😂😂

[@rayyansagheer6]

@@cgt3704 Mehmet laid the foundation for other Sultans

[@ivanvoronov3871]

Ehhhhhhh. I doubt it. The ottomans were getting over extended. Vlad Dracula was already giving him serious problems despite the small size of his nation. Poland and Hungary would be too much and too far. If the Turks became too much of a threat then Europe would have united, which eventually happened.

[@johndreibelbis1354]

Next, you should do the Sino-Vietnamese war!

[@aleksandersokal5279]

You did not mention that Sobieski was elected after a victorious battle against Ottomans at Chocim in 1673 and his campaigns made the war less of a disaster than it was at the start. Edit: typle

[@JackWilliamMarshall]

He did not mention coz it never happened mate. Do not beleive everything your nation teach you.

[@kagtkalem7115]

@@JackWilliamMarshall Hotin seferini hiç duymadın mı?

[@JackWilliamMarshall]

@@kagtkalem7115 Hotin Seferi 1621'dedir.

[@rapapa6697]

@@JackWilliamMarshall en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Khotyn_(1673) And you do not believe everything YOUR nation teach you.

[@aleksandersokal5279]

​@@JackWilliamMarshall There were multiple Battles of Chocim out of which the two major ones were in 1621 and 1673. Both were Polish victories, though the second was far more decisive as 80% of the Ottomans participating in the battle were casualties(Before Zenta the highest Ottoman casualties in a single battle). P.S.: Historical books supported by Polish, Turkish and Moldawian sources seem legitimate dude.

[@dukaktemuryaylg9659]

Boys it was maybe biggest calavary attack for european history but never for usual history. Not forget Turkic-Mongolic armies. Even akinji(light horse archers) troops in ottoman army could reach 50.000 men. Also %80 of ottoman army was sipahi (heavy horse archer)

[@rickyyacine4818]

Now u feel the karma of 1453 ad 😂😂😂😂

[@laugechristophersen9913]

A cry for help in time of need, await relief from holy league

[@JamesRodriguez-en1pm]

60 days of siege, outnumbered and weak

[@CliffCardi]

*taps with conductor’s baton* “A cry for help in time of need, await relief from Holy League, sixty days of seize outnuuuuuuuuuuumbered and weak....”

[@geediosman6415]

R.I.P Ottoman Empire we miss You 😿

[@gregoryinsanovic2925]

no we don't lol

[@mixererunio1757]

No we definitely don't. But seems like your pathetic dictator is trying to recreate it.

[@3zzzTyle]

Wait, how did he get an alliance while already at war? I know they got sky high diplo rep but damn

[@jefbord]

Ottoman player expanded too aggressively and got a coalition formed against him

[@nothingtoseeheremovealong598]

What if the ottoman empire was really big? said suleiman wearing and onion hat

[@pavletica762]

WHEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED

[@Jakob_Herzog]

*THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!*

[@mustafaaustinpowers5748]

its decline was during the tulip era tbh and accelerated during the tanzimat reformations under Mahmud II cuz industrialisation,modernisation all come at one go during the 1750s of which gave a boost to the western european powers tbh in their prestige.

[@eldermoose7938]

I don't really feel it's accurate to portray the ottoman campaigns in Europe as a war of religion, that's largely the western propagandized point of view. For the Ottomans it was about politics and economics more so than spreading the Islam. In that respect the Christian kingdoms too were more motivated by politics an really only used religion as a rallying cry to get other christian states who had little political reason to fight to get involved.

[@George-cr6jq]

The justification for conquering europe was religious why would you even try to deny that ?

[@eldermoose7938]

@@George-cr6jq because the ottoman invasion of Europe was not a crusade against Christianity. They simply did what most empires do conquer and expand. If they had solely invaded for religious reasons don't you think they would have put more effort into conversions to Islam? They didn't the ottomans were largely happy with just having more subjects to tax particularly subjects to pay the Jizya. Also Europe and the HRE were never the ottomans primary adversary. It was in fact other Muslims namely the Safavid Iranians who the ottomans spent the majority of their history Waring against.

[@darrelkh8774]

@@eldermoose7938 The ottomans did put alot of effort on conversions of non Muslims look at Bosnia and Albania before they were christian states now they are mostly islamic. There were also large populations of muslims in greece and bulgaria before they forced out in the 19th century at gunpoint for being ''traitors''. So yes the ottomans did try to convert non muslims.

[@eldermoose7938]

@@darrelkh8774 I didn't say they didn't convert anyone however thier main goal in invading Europe was not a religions one. And it's well known that the famous ottoman "tolerance" to non Muslims waned as the empire did which is mainly during the period you are talking about. I know that there's is a significant Muslim population throughout the balkins that has lead to much conflict. What I'm arguing is the ottomans didn't invade Europe in somesort of organized Islamic jihad. They invaded first and foremost for economic and political gain. Not as the continuation of the crusades as many in the west like to think. There was no overt religion motivation in thier campaigns. Unlike the Christian crusades who's sole initial goal was religious and became more political over time. One of the biggest flaws in this narrative is the fact that Louis the XIV the sun king of France was the ottomans ally during and after the war. Louis and France were staunch Catholics, who supported the Turks because politically it aided his goal to undermine the Habsburgs who During Charles the V reign surrounded France. Additionally the Republic of Venice on several occasions allied with the Ottomans against the Holy league to secure economic gain. The ottoman campaigns in Europe while they did effect the religious demographics of the Balkans and eastern Europe were at their core political conflicts, and not part of an imagined centuries long proposed assault on Christianity by Islam.

[@Cab00se90]

Do a Nine Years War episode! The connections to the Jacobite conflicts in Scotland and Ireland as well as the Revolution in England are fascinating!

[@chainmbl4257]

I'm a simple man I see the winged hussars I like