How the Ottomans Defeated the Last Crusade - Nicopolis 1396 DOCUMENTARY

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Kings and Generals began remaking its animated historical documentary on the history of the Ottoman empire with the early rise of the Ottoman beylik under Osman I. In the first video we covered the early origins of the beylik, its status among the Muslim states in Anatolia and its early clashes against the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire at Bapheus and Dimbos in 1302 ( • Beginning of the Ottom... ). The second episode showed how a tiny beylik became a regional power with the continued battles against the Byzantine empire and other states, including the siege of Prusa (Bursa) between 1317 and 1326 and the battle of Pelekanon of 1329 ( • How the Ottomans Took ... ). As the Ottoman entered the Balkans, they had to face the Serbian Empire and the Second Bulgarian Empire, leading to the battles like Maritsa in 1371 ( • Maritsa 1371 - End of ... ). The Ottomans continued expanding both in Europe and Asia, leading to the conflicts with many states, including the Karamanids, culminating at the battle of Frenkyazisi in 1387 ( • Ottoman Expansion in A... ). As the Ottomans managed to defeat their enemies in Anatolia, they now had time to fight against the burgeoning Balkan alliance that formed against them with Lazar Hrebeljanovic of the Moravian Serbia at its head. His confrontation with the sultan Murad I would led to the battle of Kosovo in 1389 ( • Battle of Kosovo 1389 ... ). In the aftermath of Kosovo, Bayezid I takes the power and continues campaigns both in Anatolia and the Balkans. The events in Anatolia culminate at the battle of Kirdilim of 1391, where the Sultan defeats his Turkic opponents led by Kadi Burhaneddin. The Ottomans became the sultans of Rum getting the title of the Seljuks ( • How the Ottomans Becam... ). Afterwards the Sultan continued campaigning in Europe, leading to the first major Ottoman defeat at Rovine in 1395 against the Voivode of Wallachia, Mircea the Elder ( • First Major Ottoman De... ). Despite that, the Ottoman advance in Europe continued and to counter it, the king of Hungary Sigismund called a crusade joined by many nobles and retinues from the Balkans, France and beyond. This led to the so called Crusade of Nicopolis - the last major crusade and the battle of Nicopolis in 1396.
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[@KingsandGenerals]

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[@sadman1005]

Your map animation is just awesome! How do you make it?! Which software?!

[@KingsandGenerals]

@@sadman1005 After Effects

[@AlejandroMartinezVelasco]

@@luqmanosman4508 You mean this one?: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4vdkpSFh8qbsNU

[@mohammadhadinosrati6788]

Pls add persian sub to your videos 🩵

[@CarlJancorda]

​@@KingsandGeneralsface reveal?

[@12345sincara]

What a brave sultant to personally inform the garrison of his arrival at night. True thunderbolt!

[@necrisro]

A lot of the leaders back in the day took to the front lines, something you will never see today

[@giorgijioshvili9713]

​@@necrisrobecause they would die instantly

[@zee9709]

@@giorgijioshvili9713 yeah, theres no sniper back then lol

[@giorgijioshvili9713]

@@zee9709 or drones tanks helicopters

[@sic7501]

​@@giorgijioshvili9713haha yeah lol. Most leaders now hide in the bunker

[@gaborkelemen83]

As hungarian child we were taught this in school. The most fantastic element in the whole Ottoman history for me was to see how Ottomans from Etrogul to Great Sulejman, which is ~250 years, only one generation was not a very highly talented leader, just talanted. In this period if you see any of Europes royal courts, its rare if there is 5 or 4 king who is equally highly talented in administration and warfere.

[@sic7501]

Agreed

[@ilyaskus5613]

Well absulutely ur right coz in that 250 years Ottomans had 8 marshal sultan !! They were not just Sultan but also great commander ! Sure Consuls of sultan also was intellegent !

[@ahmedamr1684]

I thought Hungarians hate the ottomans

[@gaborkelemen83]

@@ahmedamr1684 hungarians hate everyone, incuding other hungarians. 🤣😂its a bad habbit of most of us. But! You can think someone is great and still can hate it too. Maybe you should be hungarian to undarstand this?🤔

[@innosanto]

West europe was nothing then in global terms it gradual became. Byzantine empire was important and had decayed, and then Venice and Genoa only maybe one two other places had growing importance. Also what people dont say is that for the first 150 years maybe even 200 of Ottoman empire Greeks of Constantinople managed rhe administration of state which they knew how to do, before there is growing state culture in the Ottoman state. Ottoman empire was not that bad the first 100-150 years but after 1600 when there was drop of money all the very bad measures against Greeks and other Christians started. Greeks would have to give their children to anti christian propaganda military schools where they were taught to forget where they came from and hate the Greeks, the taxing became hugely high since no money around and only Christians could be taxed, the damaging to Christians measures started etc.

[@whywhat9018]

Even though I'm Irish and not a Turk, I love Ottoman history. So thanks for posting this. They had a really powerful army and navy at one point in time. The Sultans commanded both fear and respect.

[@malamatinas1]

Yea sure they were feared and “respected” after they took your sons to be their soldiers and your pretty daughters for their harem’s. Cool stuff.

[@HaloJumper7]

@@malamatinas1 those were only defeated enemies as Sultan Bayazid was married into the Serbian royalty and had Serbian Christian knights fighting against Tamerlane who also had Christian Armenian Knights as auxiliaries and the Ottoman Sultan's wife was taken as a slave and made to serve him in captivity which caused this Ottoman trauma and made them rely on Harem more to avoid shame. They did that to Muslims too from Syria to Egypt to Yemen etc and even among themselves when brothers fought over succession. Their vassals were generally left alone but it's still a brutal and fucked up imperialist system but pales in comparison to genocidal European settler colonialism Lebensraum (ethnic cleansing) which also happened in Northern Ireland, let alone other parts of the world.

[@cagdas135]

@@malamatinas1 Yet Alexander was a hero, right? And the crusaders who massacred Oryahova's population in this video were civilized Europeans. Very selective about your "respect".

[@arnstoff3212]

@@malamatinas1 Those devshirmes were treated far better than Turkish peasants and nobles. There is a reason for lack of Turkish nobles in the administration because most of the administration comprised of devshirmes. Even the merchants were non muslim mostly Greeks and Armenians while Turks worked in the fields and conscripted to die for Sultan's wars. OP is Irish he knows better about the time Abdulmajid helped the Irish during the Great Famine. However, you are right about harem thing and the slave trade.

[@malamatinas1]

Seems I hit a nerve here.. all these people trying to tell me how lucky those children were to be taken from their parents.

[@elite968]

Imagine having the nickname *Thunderbolt* as an general. Pretty neat.

[@elite968]

@@richestmanintatooine7131 A Sultan also can be a general...

[@munteanuiulian7427]

And then imagine ending up in a small cage to be paraded.

[@elite968]

@@munteanuiulian7427 That is just a myth made up by anti Ottoman guys, who didn't even see Timur's court once in their lifetime. They were obviously very butthurt, because of Bayazid embarrassing them in Europe. It has absolutely no historical substance. The two actual European witnesses, who were in Temerlane's court, Johan Schiltberger and Jean Le Maingre, wrote nothing about any humiliation at any sort. Although the humiliation of defeat, was probably hard enough for Bayazid.

[@captanjames6765]

​@@munteanuiulian7427Nope it was Your European Lies He was Well treated by Timurid Claimed by Timurid themselves And Yes Timur Was Türk from Father and Mongolian from Mother Side

[@CoolAdam247]

Hannibal Barca was also called The Thunderbolt 😎⚡

[@MunsterBeavis]

I first heard about the Ottomans in school, briefly. When you learn about the Ottomans from strictly a WW1 context you miss out on all of their amazing history. Such a wonderful series you’ve made K&G!!! 👏

[@oio11101]

Except their conquests nothing impressive to learn about them. No civilization.

[@sandrojones8068]

Demonic history

[@sandrojones8068]

@@richestmanintatooine7131 Latin again...

[@resentfuldragon]

@@sandrojones8068 I disagree, they were far less brutal and abusive than most nations of their era, you see here how the catholics treated anyone including fellow christians who weren't on their side. The ottomans only really were mean in terms of the jannisary core early on, but later on most parents willingly gave their kids up to the core for a better life. There was also the armenian genocide, but it was the secularists who took over at that time, and other nations like britain and russia did bloodier genocides.

[@sandrojones8068]

@@resentfuldragon Yeah okay pal, everything works your way when you look at history in ways that fit your narrative and not the whole picture.

[@Germ_f]

Why is nobody talking about how "the Thunderbolt" is such a cool nickname

[@dominicguye8058]

bro a lot of people have been both in this video and each video before that featured him

[@Tommykey07]

Jean de Carrouge, who was played by Matt Damon in The Last Duel, was killed at Nicopolis.

[@EM-tx3ly]

His Last duel Literally

[@halojen2]

Thanks u gave me a good film advice. I have just watched it. Perfect film

[@Kili2807]

@@halojen2historical equipment is pretty meh

[@natetendencia]

Yes. I found out that was his last battle.

[@EM-tx3ly]

@@natetendencia Turks were the better duelists I suppose

[@nenenindonu]

Bayezid I was one of the fiercest Ottoman emperors with a dashing military record but the man who defeated the last Crusade (Varna 1444) was his grandson Murad II

[@nenenindonu]

​@FreeMan-ev3jhYeah the first 10 Ottoman rulers with the possible exception of Bayezid II were all excellent leaders, their accomplishments aren't surprising

[@javohirotamurodiv4108]

The second battle of Kosovo 1448 I think

[@oio11101]

But no civilization.

[@user-_37273]

​@@oio11101😂Europeans didn't even have toilets back then.

[@nenenindonu]

@@oio11101 The fact that you dislike an empire due to personal bias doesn't mean that it wasn't a civilization, grow up.

[@calidone7661]

*Tale of the battle was told by Umur, son of Ottoman left wing commander Timurtaş, to prominent Turkish historian, Aşıkpaşazade. That's how we know the details (from Ottoman perspective) *Bayezid's second son, Mustafa played a critical role in Ottoman victory. He was the commander of units that flanked Franks *Most of the Franks were captured alive, according to Umur, only his father had captured 2000 knights. *Franks, despite fighting to an unfamiliar enemy in an unfamiliar territory, took no advice from those who had experience against Turks, which was critical. *Teutonic knights sacrified themselves to cover Sigismund's escape. Sigismund would become Holy Roman emperor later. *Bayezid personally charged with a great mace, as it was his custom.

[@MohamedAli-xu3uw]

Kinda makes his loss at Ankara more shocking.

[@omerfaruk6082]

Sultan Bayezid the thunderbolt shouted in front of the castle of Niğbolu (Nicopolis) : - Bre Doğan, Bre Doğan! (hey, Doğan) Doğan Bey looked at the cavalry man outside and couldn't believe his eyes: - Buyur saadetlü hünkarım (Command me, my glorious sultan) - Halin nicedür? (How is your condition) Doğan bey briefly explained their situation Sultan Bayezid said: "Hold on, we have arrived to your aid" and turned his horse back. Some Hungarian patrols noticed the dark shadow in front of the castle and immediately started to follow him, but Sultan Bayezid had swiftly disappeared into the dark forest nearby. His language is a little different from today's modern Turkish but still understandable.

[@aliatack19]

Clearly understandable

[@vusalsalmanov9971]

Close to the one that we speak in Azerbaijan nowadays

[@theemirofjaffa2266]

How did you know what they were saying? were you present?

[@akhsinilhami2418]

​@@theemirofjaffa2266how do you know what god said in bible?, were you present when in was written?

[@deron2203]

Man this series is just one of if not my favorite right now! The new redone battles are such an improvement over the old ones! Good job Kings and Generals!

[@umerimran3833]

Whole Europe vs Ottoman Crown👑

[@SEQOO55]

"Go and confront me with more allies and larger armies, so that the glory and victory I will gain will be greater!" - Bayezid I

[@SuhaibM1]

When did he say that? Just curious

[@SEQOO55]

@@SuhaibM1 Before the Battle of Nicopolis

[@Can-vl8sl]

Bayezid the Thunderbolt

[@animeszene]

​@@Can-vl8slare you a muslim

[@kwezicanca3698]

Really love the Ottoman/ Crusader series. Much love from South Africa ❤

[@ChihebChiheb-b3v]

🇩🇿❤❤🇵🇸❤❤🇿🇦

[@bozkurtmidi1461]

Greetings Sultan Bayezid The Thunderbolt 🇹🇷❤️

[@AL_AFGHANI1]

He was half Greek foolish Turkish nationalist

[@Thenoisyoneyes]

The new colour scheme and graphics are excellent, and the marks on the unite indicating their toughness is a great aid in understanding the nature of the battle.

[@bashirabdulghaniy]

Amazing username.

[@Thenoisyoneyes]

@@bashirabdulghaniy thanks ahaha

[@Suleimenoff]

A way from Total War series to indicate veteran status of unites )

[@resentfuldragon]

@@Suleimenoff That would be cool if total war changed the color of units to represent veterancy, currently chevrons are the only distinction.

[@nenenindonu]

Bayezid & Murad II were the top two figures of the late Crusades as were Nureddin Zengi & Baybars during the early classical Crusades, not to disrespect the other great Turkish rulers

[@んムムÐタモモ]

​@@julia2k8pretty

[@Murat-du2op]

​@@julia2k8 Are you aware that Mongolian and Turkish are different races? The Ottoman dynasty is a Turkish dynasty belonging to the Kayi tribe of the Oguz Turks. It has nothing to do with the Mongols. It is the Timurid Empire that is Mongol-Turkish.

[@maxsterling9908]

You're absolutely correct on all count.

[@Murat-du2op]

@@julia2k8 No, Turks and Mongolians are different races, Turks are white and Mongolians are yellow. And also, if the Turks were massacrers like the Mongols, the Ottoman Empire could have destroyed the whole of Europe when it dominated the world, or it could have made Turkish the official language of the whole of Europe, but none of these happened.

[@C63V8]

​@@julia2k8none of you small people have fought mongols as much as turks have done, so I advice you to shut up and do some more reading

[@gaplan7]

Europen All Stars VS Turks (Just Ottoman Turks) Btw, Turks wish even their enemies to be honorable. When Yıldırım Beyazıd heard about the Crusaders killing unarmed and defenseless civilians despite their promises, he became furious and went mad with anger. After the battle, he unleashed his wrath upon the wrongdoers like a volcanic eruption. His anger was so intense that even his own men pleaded with him to stop. (However, the Crusaders repeated the same mistake by breaking their word in the year 1444 and were punished again as a result)

[@WERob-to5sp]

Disinformation. Euro was fragmented. They had no all stars. Additionally, whitewashing Turkish history.

[@thephoenix6673]

It's not a mistake, Crusaders were always like this, they massacred Jerusalem's population when they first took it, they burned Constantinople in 1204 after massacring the catholic population of Zara, the northern crusades weren't any less bloody.

[@captanjames6765]

Crusaders always Massacred Muslims Mans, Womens and Childrens whenever They Conquered but They were Always Spare by Muslims Leaders and kings like Saladin and many other Muslims kings, Also like King Alp Arslan Spared Emperor Romanus of Byzantine Empire

[@captanjames6765]

In One Chronicle Genghis Khan has Said he Learn Massacre by Crusaders

[@hotnutbear]

Source please? And where can I read more about this

[@msc7594]

A lot of people are bringing up Tamerlane as if he was some magical counter to Bayezid, Tamerlane had to bribe the Anatolian Turkic clans that formed Bayezids flanks (and he outnumbered Bayezid by 20-40 thousand men before Bayezid was betrayed) to even have a shot at victory. The thunderbolt nearly beat tamerlane if only a large portion of, ironically, his Turkish auxiliary armies hadn’t defected over to Tamerlane. The man was one of the greatest Ottoman Sultans and perhaps warrior king of his age. His bad luck was in trusting the Turkish tribes that he and his father had recently subjugated in not holding a grudge against him. Even more amazing was that the Ottomans were able to have an 11 year battle royale after Timur and still rebuild their Empire even faster and more effectively afterwards. Such defeats and civil wars destroyed many other more powerful states. At this point the Ottomans were still over 250 years away from the height of their power. Truly the Inheritors of Rome.

[@CrimeanHorseArcher]

Seeing the military strength and states organization, hosting so many folks within it Ottomans were the true inheritants of Rome, yes.

[@safatkarim630]

Kayser I Rum❤

[@timeread3099]

Tamerlane was just a genghis khan wannabe. Just look at how fast his empire collapsed after him. He was a flop and so were his descendants.

[@overpredor3412]

Ottomans lost 50 years of advance bcz of tamerlane and its a biggest loss

[@ibrahimmohammedibrahim9273]

Turks are warriors The only to defeat the turks are the turks Huge respect to all turkic tribes since Göktürk 🫡🇲🇷❤️🇹🇷🇺🇿

[@viscondederioclaro]

The THUNDERBOLT was mighty, brave, swift, and just; but Varna 1444 was the Last Crusade of Europeans against the Empire (under Murad II), not Nicopolis 1396. Varna is one of the great epic battles of history, please make a documentary of Varna 1444 as well

[@2.mehmedhan]

Hayır son haçlı seferi 1448 2.kosova savaşıdır

[@DarkAlan2]

I was looking in the comments to see if anyone mentioned 'thunderbold' was defeated and placed in a cage later. Nobody here knows history, you're all clowns just like the "thunderbolt" lmao. He wrote Emir Timur's name in small letters while writing his own with gold, then got his whole empire destroyed and he was caged like an animal. History lesson there for you clowns and overly excited tiktok kids

[@jonahkristiansen5301]

@@DarkAlan2 What an ydyot... Beyazid and Timur competed for the leadership of the Turkish world, Beyazid almost won against a much larger army, and was never put in a cage this has been proven a myth, he lived in a huge royal home. I know this much and I'm from Chile. You know zero.

[@EmperorNapoleon1815]

@@DarkAlan2Tamerlane built an empire that died with him. The Ottoman Sultans built a larger empire that lasted over 600 years. He cannot hold a candle to their success.

[@rayzas4885]

Naw there were more crusades against the ottomans after varna. The Holy League after the siege of Vienna was a crusade

[@a.ricole4081]

I wonder how Sigismund survived the headache Franco-Burgundians mustve caused as they trolled throughout the entire campaign. Would've been interesting to see how the battle would've turned out if they just listened to Sigismund's advice.

[@jesseberg3271]

You do have to worry about the principle of "The winners write the history" in situations like this. Although "survivors" may be more accurate than "winners" in Sigismund's case. He did survive to tell his version of events, whereas many of the Franco-Burgundians didn't. Still, if he was shading things to make himself look better and the westerners look worse, he did a very thorough and believable job of it.

[@a.ricole4081]

​@jesseberg3271 kings and generals is known for delivering informations in neutral view points. The channel often mentions both perspectives. For example, in the previous video, kings and generals mention both sources that claims how Cleon died(he was killed as he ran away, or he fought bravely until his end) Also, kings and generals probably analyzed the Ottomans' records and cross validated it by comparing them to european sources before making video

[@hydrolifetech7911]

​@@jesseberg3271Franco-Burgundian nobles ransomed off survived so if there was any conflicting narrative it would have been recorded.

[@SC-jq9og]

Would've been interesting to see how the battle would've turned out if the balkaners kept up with the french

[@albertofrankdiaz6664]

​@@jesseberg3271"winners write the history" work for ancient times were no other record is avaible. That line was utter butchered now

[@ShahQajar]

The great historian Ibn Khaldun also argues in his “Introduction to History” (or The Muqaddimah) that nomadic peoples, the Turks foremost among them, were the most energetic and martial of peoples and that imperial dynasties and regimes emerged from such groups until they became corrupted and softened by civilization and luxury, which resulted in a loss of martial energy and group solidarity. This analysis is very true because as the Abbasid caliphate started to lose its power and influence in the mid-ninth century most of the dynasties that emerged to control the various regions of the Muslim world were founded by Turks, either tribal nomads or former slave soldiers. Ibn Khaldun even attributes the victory of the Muslims over the Mongols to the martial power and energy of the Turks, who formed the elite ranks of the Mamluk armies that defeated the Mongols on several occasions as they attempted to advance into Syria and Egypt between 1260 and 1323.

[@AmirSatt]

this is scourge of every monarchy. Usually it begins with strong ruler but as time goes it gets corrupted to the point of decadance and weakness (if it has no wars)

[@se20558]

The bulk of the Mamluk army were basically native Egyptians, not Turks. And in the Muslim world (actually in the history of the world), physically the strongest warriors were the Rashidun Arab Muslims, no Turkic fighter doesn't even stand a chance against those superhuman fighters. Some of these names are enough, Ali Ibn Abi Talib, Dharrar Ibn Al Azwar, Khalid bin Waleed, Al Qaqa ibn Amr, etc. They alone can take down armies.

[@Mehmet68]

@@se20558ı think you need more search about mamluk army and Türk army history. Mamluk’s army include mostly Türk and Cherkes warrior. Arabs is neither soldiers nor Warriors

[@se20558]

@@Mehmet68 and I think you need more history lesson apart from your fake turkish ones, it's well recorded that the bulk of the Mamluk army is Egyptian where Turks and others consisted only a small portion, otherwise, logically it wouldn't be possible to sustain an army for few centuries. Coming to whether the Arabs are warriors/soldiers or not, go read the last four names of my comment again, only those names are enough to make the best Turkic fighter piss his pants. The coward Turks barely fight any war when they are outnumbered, while the Rashidun Arab Muslims defeated two superpowers while being 5 to 1 outnumbered.

[@silviuvisan505]

Gotta love muslim infighting. Turks are known to be proud because their medieval empire and they cling on that nationalism. And the other guy thinks one guy can take on entire armies. Bollywood much?

[@knotgifos]

Beyazid I is known as Yıldırım (Lightening) Beyazid because of his speed of joining and winning this war. Edit: As @samettavsancoglu7646 pointed out, Bayezid actually recieved his title of "Yıldırım" in an earlier battle of Frenkyazisi against Karamanids.

[@samettavsancoglu7646]

Alakasi yok. Sultan Murad döneminde Bayezid şehzadeyken Karaman'lilar ile yapilan Frenkyazisi savasinda aldi o unvanı

[@knotgifos]

Niğbolu olarak biliyordum ancak dediğiniz gibiymiş. Unvanının hakkını vermiş o zaman en azından. Düzeltme için teşekkürler.

[@samettavsancoglu7646]

@@knotgifos rica ederim. Harp Tarihi kanalında detayli bir video var Frenkyazisi Muharebesi ile ilgili tavsiye ederim

[@yusufemreyldrm346]

lighting şimşek demek

[@samettavsancoglu7646]

@@yusufemreyldrm346 evet Bayezid the Thunderbolt olmaliydi

[@Jon_the_Apostate]

Thank you for continuing the Ottoman series. I thought you won't continue it and because of it, I was dismayed.

[@KHK001]

Yes! more Ottoman wars love this series!

[@agustinsilvaramirez5104]

Thank you so much. I LOVE this Serie. Please, load the next episode soon. I am eager to see the rest of Bayezid's reign.

[@Seloading]

Your map editing looks so cool pls share it with other channels

[@gokmenaktas2169]

amazing piece of work. I am Turkish and I can say that this war as we call it "Nigbolu" was incderibly and mesmerisingly presented and told by you. Thank you for the best efforts, it was a pleasure watching this.

[@archanarajan7086]

I like the shade of blue you have used for the French units. You should use that shade to represent them

[@archanarajan7086]

@kristianosbourn2428 I agree, people always remember their greatest defeats like Agincourt and Waterloo. Very few remember their victories and efforts. In the Italian Wars they held out while surrounded from all sides geographically and came out tin a strong position. It is sad.

[@satiroglu44]

He was known by moving the army fast and being quite responsive and decisive. That's why he was called the thunderbolt. But that caused him to lose against Timur, he led the army far east into the Anatolia where Timur has moved through west thus he had to pull the army back with tired/weary horses and infantry.

[@Liquidsback]

Crusaders: Deus Vult Ottomans: What was that? Crusaders: Deus abandonded.

[@EM-tx3ly]

Ottomans: Then convert to Islam Jannisaries: YES

[@christopherg2347]

"Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory" - favourite frankish pasttime. Doesn't mater how good you are at charging and how many battles you win. If you get to prideful and outrun your own support, you die and loose the battle.

[@weedwizard7906]

Absolutely baffling how often they repeated the same mistake.

[@Gimmegames4free6942]

Common french L. Damn shame Sigismund lost. The first lesson a soldier's learns is discipline and they have none facepalm

[@starfox300]

their lust for slaughter was too great. Hilarious how many times this occurred

[@romaaeterna_1]

great video man. love it!

[@mikemodugno5879]

I'm currently reading Roger Crowley's book 1453. This video was an awesome suplement for learning about the fall of Constantinople. Thank you.

[@hydrolifetech7911]

It didn't fall. It was captured.

[@themoon3588]

​@@hydrolifetech7911same thing mate

[@smavi4133]

@@hydrolifetech7911hilarious mental gymnastics.

[@smavi4133]

@@richestmanintatooine7131 hilarious mental gymnastics.

[@TheSilentStrikez]

It's quite surprising to me that, having read both scripts of this confrontation, this particular version comes across as rather blunt in numerous aspects. While the video is well-made, it falls short when it comes to accuracy. It always amazes me how in the West, there's often an attempt to soften the impact of defeat.

[@goshlike76]

Great documentary as always. Alrternative title would have been "How did the Crusaders, despite their large numbers and professional armies, manage to screw themselves over? Again?"

[@fatihbey7398]

professional really :D the JANİSSARİES LAUGHING THAT BULLSHİT :D

[@justsefa1843]

"We must defeat the evil Ottomans that oppress our poor christian brothers and sisters!" *Goes and kills everyone, muslims and christians alike.

[@emre30489]

thats little bit extrreme

[@squeaky206]

​@@emre30489Not as extreme as basically the entire Fourth Crusade (crusaders sacked the CATHOLIC city of Zara and went on to ruin Constantinople for 57 years until liberation)

[@theemirofjaffa2266]

So barbaric. Nothing Christian in them.

[@balrawg5990]

Wasn't the Last Crusade (also defeated by the Ottomans) in 1444?

[@umerimran3833]

Yes Varna.

[@muhammadfaiqawan5544]

Turks lives in our hearts 🥰 Love from Pakistan to our brave Turks brother and to great ottoman empire (usmania saltanat)🇵🇰♥️🇹🇷

[@hendersongriffith3990]

To think he turned the battle around. Very quick thinking, critical really. Long live Bayezid👍

[@DeportivistaTurco1823]

After the Turks emerged victorious from the battlefield, Sultan Beyazit addressed the noble captives as follows; Go and meet me with more allies and bigger armies, so that the glory and the glory that I will gain will be even greater!

[@nawafXjohn]

Crossing of the Danube should be more of a war reference than crossing the rubicon

[@catalyst772]

Wasn't Varna the last Crusade?

[@CrimeanHorseArcher]

What an improvement on the quality. An epic story. It was so sharp for both sides, all or nothing for both parties.

[@jonbaxter2254]

Been waiting for this one...

[@qamarahmad1432]

Is it right to call Nicopolis as last crusade wasn't Varna the last crusade ?

[@bobsemple262]

Of all the ottoman sultans, bayezid stick out the most to me simply because of "the thunderbolt" nickname

[@eaxu]

What about Mehmed the Conqueror, Suleiman the Magnificent or Selim the grim.

[@sergius9499]

selim the tuborg

[@WOLF36554]

Hurray!!! Another video on the Ottomans. I was afraid this serie was canceled

[@eky8323]

Thank you Kings & Generals for remaking this videos. Please can anybody tell me name of the soundtrack from 04:22 - 08:05 , thanks guys!

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you , K&G . 🐺 Loupis Canis .

[@sassythesasquatch6847]

I like the remaster of this video adding even more info than the one 4 years ago in addition to improved quality

[@RexOlafusVidulusMagnus]

Actually the campaign of Varna was the last crusade

[@CouchTomato87]

Actually it was when Nazis were looking for the Holy Grail. A movie taught me this.

[@RexOlafusVidulusMagnus]

@@CouchTomato87 your comment is *brilliant* *cough* you know? In 1443 Eugene IV issued a crusading bull to which Władysław III responded and marched on the Ottomans, just as Sigismund did.

[@elifimsinotlar]

Love and respect my ancestors Ottomans i miss you so much love from Türkiye 🇹🇷❤️

[@BlancoGoneWild]

This is for far one of your best series, cant't wait to see the next episodes

[@hafizbilal15]

Great video ❤

[@ozkanboyraz7626]

Awesome video, please continue. I am waiting for the next episode

[@AliHasan2-v9e]

The number of Defeats in battle caused by French cavalry recklessly charging and then getting wrecked is mind boggling 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@varun_MRG]

Is there one battle in which the French cavalry do not charge head on to defeat. Seen this at Crecy, Poitiers, Agincourt, Waterloo?

[@hassaanalisiddiqui3827]

I would love to see a video on the siege of nagykaniza

[@muhtesem1946]

Visiting your channel everyday since last two months for this masterpiece

[@SittingBull-TwoHills]

respect to the serbian Vassal, he was loyal friend on his time

[@JamesFischer_35]

they were indeed loyal and valiant fighters. they fought beside Bayezid in the battle of Ankara against Timur's deadly army. and they say, when Timur was nearly victorious and saw those knights fighting very bravely in a lost battle, he ordered his army to open an escape way for the knights because of his respect for them.

[@yushaktp]

This channel used to be very neutral. But Now the tone was changing noticeably. I mean there is an old video for the same battle, it's not too hard to compare the tone. But, anyway, thanks for the video.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Can you provide portions that are not neutral?

[@brokenbridge6316]

The internal conflicts of the Crusaders played nearly as big a role in their defeat as Bayezid's military leadership. This battle is an interesting case study of what can help lead to victory or defeat.

[@CrustyCheese1991]

In every episodes regarding the Ottomans, there is always an "excuse" why the european forces lost an battle because most of the sources from this channel are mainly european ones.

[@CrustyCheese1991]

@@realDanielAugustine of course thats reasonable but i didnt exaggerate when i said in every major battle the ottomans fought against europeans there was an excuse. Just watch some battles back to back and you will see it. i can see it if it happens half the time but its almost 100% of the time.

[@rockinflemingo3075]

@@AI-uk1ct Most of those european empires would also not see the next two decades, Ottomans Atleast lived long enough

[@CrustyCheese1991]

@@realDanielAugustine i never said that this channel does it intentional but if you use mainly sources from just one side a little bit of bias cmes with it.

[@CrustyCheese1991]

@@laonch6073 Please explain what you mean with better trained, equipped and advanced armies. To my knowledge the Ottomans were the most advanced power in europe atleast from 14th to the 16th century before their steady decline started.

[@mkbijnaam8713]

In my history books at school when i was younger they only mentioned Muslims . Like the books fullout refused to mention the Ottomans it was just called the Muslims . Never did the books mention how great the Turks where upuntil they became the sick man of Europe . My history books loved to mention that . Thanks for making these great video's

[@theemirofjaffa2266]

Which country is that?

[@farazaltaf1421]

Thanks man, i was waiting for the Nicopolis Bayazid's greatest victory

[@DeliYuzbashi]

In short, it is hard to think of any other ethnolinguistic entity in history that conquered so vast a territory and founded so many empires and states, also contributing to world civilizations. The history of the Turkic peoples was an important factor in world history for more than a millennium until the emergence of Europe as the world's dominant power. What happened in the Turkic world often affected the history of China, Central Asia, the Middle East, South Asia, and Europe. One may also argue that world history began with the "Turko-Mongol" empire created by Chinggis Khan. In the contemporary world, Turkic-speaking nations form six states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, and Turkey/Türkiye) and several "autonomous" units in Russia (the republics of Chuvash, Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Altai, Khakassia, Tuva, and Sakha) and China (the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region). Turkic peoples also reside as minority groups in several other countries, including Mongolia and Iran, among others. It would therefore be difficult to acquire a comprehensive understanding of world history as well as our present world without studying the history of the Turkic peoples.

[@sandrojones8068]

In short, the very Alphabet you wrote this in, is from the other group that you can't think about.. The whole world was made/influenced by the Romans and their offshoots. One may also argue that world history began with Ancient Europeans such as Greeks and one of their offshoots- The Romans. The contemporary World Countries that have some connections to Ancient Rome cover almost the entirety of the globe.

[@sandrojones8068]

@@richestmanintatooine7131 Turds are the shat

[@giorgijioshvili9713]

Turks were nomads they didnt influeneced anything only conquered and got influeneced by the cultures they conquered

[@Kaiyanwang82]

I mean, the ottomans were muslim (arabia) with an highly persianate high culture. Might makes right but the reality is more complicated.

[@Can-vl8sl]

@@Kaiyanwang82 The Ottomans were a Muslim Turkish empire with Byzantine and Persian influence. The Ottoman dynasty first emerged in north-western Anatolia.

[@Yugioh_Turk]

Those Franko-Burgandians are the real Leeroy Jenkins

[@fardinsinstructions2955]

Bro, please upload these Ottoman empire episodes fast..

[@shamsuddinahmmadshimul3934]

Ottoman, The Lone Wolf ✨

[@tepesobrejac4360]

Sigismund: "So, as any amateur strategist would know, we must first scout the enemy lines to be sure what we're up against. Then we'll naturally leave the armies that have the most experience at fighting the Ottomans to defeat them while the other..." French: "FOR GLORY AND FOR VIRGIN MARY CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGE!!!!!" Sigismund: "Oh, F*CK!"

[@silverspade8394]

just realized he might had a better chance if the knights werent there at all. muslim army composition(weak front, strong support behind it and Very strong flanks) at the time required some good tactics to defeat and blindly charging would get you killed. Eastern europe who had fought with them knew how such army worked and the cautious approach pays dividends. Sigismund had to basically charge as well and throw the plan to save the knight but ending with losing his army as well

[@viscondederioclaro]

@@silverspade8394 There is no "Muslim army". Ottomans accepted Christian allies too, the Thunderbolt saw Stefan as his son. It was the West Europeans who were barbaric murderers, animals. I say this as Christian myself

[@matheusrondelleite8015]

I love you guys when you use CK2 music 😂❤

[@oriffel]

those map effects are gettin fancy

[@chromsh2806]

If i had a nickel for every time a crusade failed due to the vanity and ignorance of its participants.... I'd have so, so many nickels

[@felixbabuf5726]

I'd be able to pay for university from my own income if I had that many nickels

[@gorilladisco9108]

I think you'll have a dime, give or take. It's not like they sent crusader every month back then.

[@DungeonDweller-du4gv]

@@AI-uk1ct but the op didnt talk about caliphates at all tho? they only discussed crusades so no need to get insecure lmao. Also yes caliphates had that too but it was more in the crusades

[@makeytgreatagain6256]

@@DungeonDweller-du4gvmakes sense as the Islamic world was more United than the Christian one. Most Europeans didn’t even view eachothers as the same or on equal standing. The Islamic world viewd all Arabs as equal as and those who were lesser were more unified. A good example of this can be seen with how crusader armies had multiple languages etc meanwhile all Islamic kingdoms in the Middle East and North Africa could communicate in Arabic, sure some minorities like Berbers and Turks were oppressed and even overlooked often the fact is they had a more cohesive concept of unity compared to the Europeans at the time hence why there was more fractures in the crusader armies than Islamic ones

[@ikielinsesi1843]

It's how your Christian historians depict it. In their eyes Muslims or Turks can't beat them otherwise.

[@md.shamiurrahman7110]

Next please ASAP....

[@adrianadios5041]

The final crusade was stupid just like the other ones. Too many leaders in one place, they never listened to each other and were only there for personal glory.

[@-RONNIE]

Thank you for the information in this video good work

[@ElBandito]

The French: We will follow our Saint Leeroy to glory!!! Other Europeans: Don't you mean Saint Denis? The French: .... Other Europeans: You meant Saint Denis, right?

[@barnabasmike4318]

I'm wheezing 😂

[@joaomarcelo0031]

Did the french really think that they alone could just bulldoze through the ottoman army? Heavy cavalry is powerful, but this is just arrogance.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Think from their pov. People who were raised on the stories of the First Crusade, where, at times, a handful of heavy knights were able to turn the battle against the "nomads". Mircea and other locals tried to explain that the Ottomans were not your usual nomadic light cavalry, but to no avail.

[@joaomarcelo0031]

@@KingsandGenerals I see, yeah from their pov it makes sense. I still think that what they did was inexcusable though.

[@ufukakbulut2362]

​@@joaomarcelo0031şuan onlar ve kendilerini yenen Türklerin hepsi ölü. Artık hepsi eşit ve kardeşler. Bundan 6 Asır önce neden savaştıklarını bile bilmeyen insanlara kızmaya gerek yok.

[@Inquisitor_Vex]

Can we get more examples of knights mounting/dismounting during battle?

[@KingsandGenerals]

I think there are a few examples in our Hundred Years' War and Wars of the Roses videos.

[@Inquisitor_Vex]

@@KingsandGenerals I can think of a couple from the 100yw and the crusades. Not too familiar with the WotR (Was just curious because I’ve met people who didn’t believe knights would mount/dismount mid-battle. Apparently, their armour would be too heavy for them to dismount and fight and if they decided they’d fight on foot, they’d stay on foot and would have to rely on another unit to be mounted to be able to do mounted stuff.)

[@augustus4102]

I set you free, Fearless John, you are free go and gather armies against me again If there are no fools like you, I cannot win. -Yıldırım Beyazıt Han

[@derpycat9347]

Crusader Kings 2 Song was nice

[@timothysmith-od8zr]

I am very happy to know about medieval battles 17:18 😅

[@aneesahmed8177]

Too much waited for this episode ,pls upload next episode of this series as soon as possible thanks

[@scourgeofgodattila579]

The last Crusaders were Varna, not Nicopolis.

[@ozdemirozkanoz7315]

You can say malta,lepanto or even mezokerestes were a crusade. You wont be wrong but nicopolis was the last time all christendom united. Varna was mostly eastern europa and italian city states

[@shehryarashraf5840]

i've seen people saying the crimean war was the last crusade

[@ozdemirozkanoz7315]

@@shehryarashraf5840 true, both france and russia claimed themselves for being protector of christians living in ottoman territory and fought for it. so it makes sense

[@squeaky206]

​@@ozdemirozkanoz7315Crimea was fought on Russian territory, for the control of Christians in the Empire (which both empires couldn't give two shits about). Not on Ottoman territory for the liberation of those Christians living in the realm of Abdulmejid. The last "crusade" of any kind was the 1683-1699 Turkish War.

[@ozdemirozkanoz7315]

@@squeaky206 when i was thinking for what is the last crusade great turkish war came to my mind aswell but the point is its hard to pick. When all arabs fighting against isreal they were thinking this is the latest crusade they should stand against. Isreal had been put in holy lands by western power so it made sense too

[@esoterra8050]

Whenever I think, your channel can't get any better > you drop a masterpiece like this. Very well, researched, story-boarded and edited. Hats off.

[@SKa-tt9nm]

The end of the Second Bulgarian Empire 😢

[@mohammadbilal4473]

Please make a video on the ottoman civil war which occured after timur's invasion

[@KingsandGenerals]

We will

[@mohammadbilal4473]

@@KingsandGenerals thank you very much, luv your vids ;-)

[@rafsan1578]

In battle of nicopolis,sultan beyazid fought against a crusader army consisting of every kind of europian men- french, spanish, purtoguese, Italian, greek, german, hungerian, english, and of course east europian. But still beyazid had equal number of army to the crusaders? Lol😂😂, this is the biggest europian lie of the century. At that time Beyazid not even ruled the whole anatolia, how can he make an army equal to an unified europian crusade? He didn't have numarical superiority. Crusaders had at least, 80k-100k, where beyazid managed to bring 40k at most.

[@robbabcock_]

Thanks for another terrific video! ⚔🔥🙌

[@hesoyam97320]

1v20. Even ottoman wins. I love Ottoman

[@alieneskutanoglu8673]

Turkish subtitle please... I like this channel

[@shehansenanayaka3046]

Battle of nicopolis one of the greatest battles ever. It led the tone to ottomans to enter hungary and conqueror it. What a series. I love your all series. This is awesome. Love from Sri Lanka ❤️🔥..

[@davidi6773]

This is like a modern version of sending just MBT without infantry

[@vos3373]

Glad u re did this yall

[@hgkghkhgkgh8378]

and then the French cavalry charged in without any assisantance just to lose the battle... a tale as old as France itself.

[@schroedingersdog7965]

Crécy, Poitiers, Nicopolis, Agincourt . . . It's like a broken record.

[@schroedingersdog7965]

@@tibsky1396 Absolutely! Charles VII had little use for "chivalry" nonsense, and his more pragmatic methods of warfare eventually resulted in French victory in the 100-Years War.

[@ShahQajar]

The Turks, according to al-Jahiz, were a match to the Kharijites and the other groups mentioned earlier and excelled over them in their own ways. The Turks were as good as the Kharijites and the Khurasanis when it came to a frontal charge with spear and lance. However, the Turks had the advantage of being excellent at mounted archery, a skill that the Kharijites, Arabs, and Khurasanis lacked. The Turks could fire in every direction while riding a horse at full gallop. Al-Jahiz states that when one thousand Turk horsemen fired a single volley at the enemy they caused one thousand casualties. Mounted archery gave the Turks an advantage over almost all of their foes, they were able to either fully destroy their enemies with minimal contact, or weakened them to the point that they could not resist the charge that followed the arrow volleys. Furthermore, the Turks were as deadly when they retreated as they were when they attacked because they could fire their arrows just as accurately behind them when they were withdrawing from battle."

[@SirDrFish]

Philip of Artois must have been an ancestor of Leeroy Jenkins

[@Suleimenoff]

Compared to the Battle of Ankara this was just a minor skirmish. It is actually impressive by how much Beyezid was able to increase his control span to field 80k at Ankara. Although he finally met someone more cunning there it does not diminish his achievements.

[@resentfuldragon]

Absolutely, losing to someone like timur doesn't lessen a man, I doubt most great generals of history could contend with someone like timur. A legend met a legend, both achieved what few could dream of.

[@CrimeanHorseArcher]

Calling a decisive daybattle where 40000 men fought and Knowing the importance of the battle, I would not call it a 'minor skirmish'

[@josephsarra4320]

I was waiting for this, hopefully they’ll be more episodes soon. Were you guys planning to do the Crimean war in the future?

[@KingsandGenerals]

Yep!

[@maverikmiller6746]

@@KingsandGenerals I am really looking forward to Crimean war. Because no one describes it in detail. I hope you make it a clear, detailed and long series.