I read a book were a hungarian war prisoner wrote that the turks saw wounding opponents in combat aiming at the hands or aiming at there horses were seen cowardly so they always aimed at the head. Shows that even the europeans had better equipments the turks managed the beat them thanks to there courage and warrior mentality
By this time, the Ottomans had reached the very end of the logistical capacities of 16th-19th Century armies in Europe. You could just barely move artillery from Constantinople to Vienna in the spring and summer before the fall rains set in. You could prepare the previous fall, as the Ottomans did in 1683, but your enemies would therefore also have time to prepare. The Ottomans could not establish a closer logistical base, such as at Belgrade, because they were also at war with the Safavid Dynasty of Persia to the east. Basically, they had expanded as far as they could, anywhere.
@Yamamoto Hiromori Roman did not carried Artilery at all and Ottoman Army was going to siege so they had to carry the heav artilery which can weight up to tons.
@J Mansfield Remember that even a more or less modern army lost millions to illness only one century ago....spanish flue was also a death sentence for many soldiers in 1919-1922. Due to lack of natural working immunsystem because poorly fed. And in Ukraine we see that by destroying bridges, warehouses with supplies it's not much better. So not only those old time it was dufficult to fed an army properly. In these days only mechanized warfare will be immuun to these problems if the drivers can sit in their office to stear the robots.
@Reinier NN A modern army could manage that certainly but armies from this period had ALL manner of trouble whether they fought, marched or rested. Local infrastructure would struggle to feed and house an army camped for months. Plague, dysentery and VD were constant companions. Also, God forbid there’s a bad harvest in the region.
In Turkish this battle is known as "Kepçe Kazan Savaşı" (The Battle of Ladle and Cauldron) in honor of the cooks and other auxiliary units that took up arms and fought in the face of imminent defeat.
Wow after numerous cautious, brilliant and disciplined moves by the Chriatians, greed took over just before the final moment. This is a good textbook study on the necessity to remain disciplined til the very end.
@Ghazan The Janissaries and Ghazis and the Sultan’s personal guard were certainly disciplined but I don’t believe the Delis and Tatars were to any great extent. Seems like most of these stories end with them running away. But the Europeans had no proper soldiers at this time and really wouldn’t for almost another century.
A lot of the Christian mercenaries were not getting paid, they were fighting against Islam but they were living only out of loot from the enemies. It was not greed, but they had to make a living out of it.
Channels like this are the reason I’m so into history. Battles this well animated and documented put everything to scale for me to understand and you really grasp that these are thousands of men fighting for what they believe is a good cause or for pay for their families. So much blood and gunpowder. Thank you for what you do!
What a dramatic battle. I wish older battles could have been preserved in the same way more "modern" battles are. Each one is a story full of bravery and tragedy, with dramatic plot-twists around every turn. Imagine all battles Rome fought being as well documented as this one.
honestly rome had pretty good documentation, honestly its more of the non-mediterranian powers that got forgotten more. We have a lot from the romans, egyptians, greeks, and more. Its pretty hard to find great battles of sub-saharren african history, though the few times we did get so (example: adal-ethiopian war) we see they were quite fantastic and very interesting. China, india, and japan were also pretty well documented for its time, but the surrounding areas in asia have a lot less recorded battles saved from their history. In the americas we basically have nothing that was saved from before the spanish.
@Stopreadingmyusername I remember hearing that (I think Romans) used burning pigs against Carthaginian elephants because the sounds they made would make the elephants turn around and trample their own army in fear
@Richard Lindquist Congratulations, you've officially been chosen to receive my personal nomination for this week's: "Most Underrated Comment I've Read This Week Award...!!" 🤪 😜
1 hour extravaganza!!!! Loved every moment of it guys! Your shorter productions are obviously great and that is why we are here, but having a total storyline told from beginning to end is ironically more engaging then the shorter devided parts. Brilliant, love it and please make more!
Dear HistoryMarche, I really love your channel and content. Would you consider covering Khmelnytsky uprising and Polish - Zaporozhian war? There are a lot of epic battles, plot twists and overall it is the one of the most important events, (if not the most) in the ukrainian history. In fact it is the most important war of Eastern Europe, because it marked the beginning of rise of Russia and fall of Poland-Lithuania. Plus nobody on youtube made a good strategic analysis on it like you do, as far as I know. Thx
@CREEPERSLAYER2013 ROBLOX4LIFE their songs are in Ukrainian- they were relocated to Russia (Kuban region) by Catherine the Great. Now they speak Russian of course but their music and singing is definitely Ukrainian (and was back then too!).
This was such a great look on this battle. You guys did a great job at making this documentary series. While I had known that the Ottomans won this battle for most of this video it didn't seem like it and I was beginning to question whether I recalled my memory correctly. Amazing battle and video. Keep doing what you are and I really enjoyed it.
The way this channel studies hundred year old registries and records from many different sources and then condenses them into an hour long video it's simply astounding. So much information, so many names, strategies and places all portraited so perfectly and with so much clarity and care that it is perfectly manageable by the viewer and easily retained thanks to the masterful visuals. I wish all history professors would try to teach history with such passion! They who don't know their history, are damned to repeat it. And how true it is for our time.
What an amazing story.. and it all actually happened. I think about all the people who died that day and wonder if they’d have chosen differently now that we know how it all ended that day.
@Kábel Pretty sure from the perspective of a Bohemian peasant you wouldn't be very fond of him. It's easy to forget just how catastrophic wars are when you're viewing them occur as squares fighting each other on a map in a video. You're not seeing the fields of dead and dying soldiers, burning villages and corpses of entire families of peasants strewn about who had no say in the war to begin with. Not to mention the years of suffering that often follows any war. They hardly give a shit who was right or wrong.
Just goes to show you the value of persistence. The Ottoman head honcho stayed and rallied his troops, while that archduke dude fled to the stream and didn’t even bother heading into his own camp, so he lost. Like an old staff sergeant I knew used to say, discipline wins battles.
@P T These numbers are subject to great bias. Like imagine the first fight, Christians lost 15 men while there are Janissaries shooting them? And Ottomans lost 1000? Westerners sure know how to manipulate the results. Howerver, I would agree that Ottomans in total would outnumber them due to their old Roman conscription methods but it would not be 2 or 3 to one.
It didn't hurt that the Turks significantly outnumbered the Christians. Staying in the fight with a riotous army would've done more harm than good for the Christians
Love this channel, very good coverage of this war. I also find the bloody revenge raids between the Cossacks and Crimean Tartars very interesting over this time period, even when the Habsburgs and Ottomans were at peace they couldn't stop these people from killing each other.
The Habsburg strategy on ottoman affairs is something to be studied more closely. They literally refused to meet them on an open battlefield until the long turkish war. Dont fight an enemy on the open field you cant beat and wait for a more opportune time and place. Much to learn in that.
@Billy Jesus Does it matter that 20 countries are allied against you if your army outnumbers theirs ? Of course not. I At Varna, since you are fond of that example, the Ottomon force outnumbered the allied army by about 20,000 soldiers (40,000 (high estimate) vs 60,000).
@Billy Jesus Does it matter that 20 countries are allied against you if your army outnumbers theirs ? Of course not. I At Varna, since you are fond of that example, the Ottomon force outnumbered the allied army by about 20,000 soldiers (40,000 (high estimate) vs 60,000).
@Billy Jesus Does it matter that 20 countries are allied against you if your army outnumbers theirs ? Of course not. I At Varna, since you are fond of that example, the Ottomon force outnumbered the allied army by about 20,000 soldiers (40,000 (high estimate) vs 60,000).
@Billy Jesus Does it matter that 20 countries are allied against you if your army outnumbers theirs ? Of course not. I At Varna, since you are fond of that example, the Ottomon force outnumbered the allied army by about 20,000 soldiers (40,000 (high estimate) vs 60,000).
@Billy Jesus Does it matter that 20 countries are allied against you if your army outnumbers theirs ? Of course not. I At Varna, since you are fond of that example, the Ottomon force outnumbered the allied army by about 20,000 soldiers (40,000 (high estimate) vs 60,000).
Can you just imagine thousands of men and horses on a battle feild on a large scale. Talk about balls of steel. every battle sounds like a movie nowadays
If you play video games you might like the total war series, its on steam. Some are old but amazing to play, empire tw and napoleon is this time period.
Balls of steel you say ? Did you miss the videos of battles where 90% of an army would run away as soon as a battle wasnt a 100% win for them in the first minutes. The fact we have made into legends the rare occansions of people standing their ground and fighting to the last or refusing to stop fighting even tho the enemy had the upper hand at first clearly shows that it was unexpected and very rare so it points that quite often most people will run away as soon as the fight begins. Were some of the men brave - no doubt but majority were just like any of us who would rather prefer to live than die on some field for someone`s agenda. Lets not forget a lot of those people were on wages at the time so it made no sense for them to die and not have a chance to use the money. Routing was even more common in armies that levied their soldiers without actual payment , so you risk your life for a potential loot - wasnt a great deal for most. Few had the mentioned balls of steel.
Im just going to point out that whoever you are, you are a truly gifted narrator who has yet to be aptly recognised for the talent you are. I would love to hear you narrate the "Earth war stories" from the Alien franchise literature by Dark Horse comics, or better yet Robert E Howards Conan. However for now I am happy to learn of historic confrontations because your voice is so very easy on the ear. Please keep doing what you do, and I hope that one day you will be discovered for greater projects where you belong.
You tell the tale of the battle well. It is astounding to hear how the Christian forces prevailed in every clash until they lost discipline and fell to looting before the battle was over; talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory! One edit I would recommend is to replace all references to" rifles" to "muskets". I much doubt that more than a few - if indeed any! - of the firearms were rifled, even among the better-equipped Christian forces.
I got to admit, Mehmed III had me during most of the videos. Looking very incompetent, culminating in his decision to retreat to the camp, leaving 4000 janissaries to their doom outside the camp and looking like a complete fool by mounting no defense of his camp wall, he waited the enemy to get in and turned the tide. The ability of charading a chaos is the acme of discipline according to Tsun Tzu.
@StillCant BeSilenced Haha, I wouldn't take offense from a random guy online, but let me remind you, as a part of NATO, I am in higher rank than you so don't be like that if we meet, if you're still in service 😊
@StillCant BeSilenced What does make sense? You think I'm Pro-Ottoman because I am a Turk? Unlike you Americans we don't have a shallow history, one country and two parties. We are deeper than that. I am one of the man Pro-Republic people that you probably have never heard of, who make like 40-45% of Turkish population
Agree. Would go as far as saying one of the best history channels. They deserve a shot at producing series for mainstream TV. This really is good stuff and would be great if more could see it👍
I love your content. Have you ever thought about making a video on the Rebellions of Upper & Lower Canada in 1837/38? It was Canada's failed revolution against the British.
@Dec3k5 the federation was formed on the very principal's Mackenzie fought for. it was "against the british" because it ultimately aimed for a self governing sovereign libertarian republic. i for one would love to have seen an independent Canada like our brothers to the South. I bet you wear a mask while driving solo tho.
It wasn't against "the British" it was mainly due to political corruption and a desire for local reform. Thankfully it was defeated, many of the rebels hung, and the Canadian federation was formed.
Last week, I was reading a first-hand source about this war in the Archives of the Prime Minister in Istanbul. According to the source, the Ottoman Sultan didn't want to join in the war, but the official historian of the palace Hodja Sadeddin motivated him to join in it. Finally, Mehmet the third joined the war. Hodja Sadeddin was Sultan`s advisor at the same time.
This battle shows that if you stay in the fight you have a chance of winning. Also, it seems that the tens of thousands of people who died on both sides died for nothing.
A map Which reminds me... Herbert Asquith's widdow (Asquith was PM at at the outbreak of WW1, Churchill was in the Admiralty) would later on write about the meeting that took place at Dowding Street No 10... She wrote that everyone was in a somber mood, when war with Germany was announced. Except Churchill, who was "beaming with glee"...
A map They didn't annex French territory, they took back what belonged to Germany in the first place, and most of which (but not all by this time) was MAJORITY German. Particularly Alsace. Lorraine did have more majority French areas through re-settling etc, but was still historically German. But yes, Germany also figured this war would happen sooner or later, and at the going rate the enemies would eventually become too powerful (with the alliance constellation) and it was a now or never thing. But simply throwing Austria to the wolves would have made their situation even worse, which played into their decision to fight and strike preemptively as well. Alliances not working that way is also why Britain didn't intervene in the fight to begin with (I'm sure the government might have wanted to, but it wasn't an alliance case + there was NO public support for it, until the Belgian invasion + the propaganda that followed from it [hacking off the hands of children, bayonetting babies, etc..]).
A map Austria was eager to finally punish Serbia, yes. There were many more incidents that lead to that though, such as Serbia refusing Austrian investigators, Serbia allowing captured accomplices of Princep to "escape" (so they couldn't be questioned), etc. I find it disgusting that the plot being directly linked to the Serb state & military is never discussed in history, and most people simply assume this was some "misguided" youth who killed the Austrian heir. Ironically enough the heir was very unpopular with Kaiser Franz Josef and court, because he wanted to reform the A-H Empire & give equal rights to ALL, rather than Germans and Hungarians lording over everyone else. He wanted to reorganize it as "the united states of Greater Austria". He was also very well liked in Bosnia, and when he was killed there were riots all over Sarajewo and other Bosnian towns, where Serbs were hunted down and beaten (some were killed), Serb shops etc destroyed. Austrians had to send in troops to restore order and protect the Serbs from the Bosnians. And realistically what was Germany supposed to do, once it became clear that Serbia wasn't going to accept Austria's demands (so despite all their terrorism and interference in Austrian lands there was still a chance of peace, but they had had enough) and there would be war? When Russia started mobilizing, they asked the French what they would do (which is why I said alliances don't work that way, because if they did there would have been no need to even ask to begin with), and the French essentially said "we will do what is best for France" and also started mobilizing. At that point Germany had two options: Fight and strike first (rather than allow Russia and France to get fully mobilized, especially Russia fully mobilizing would be bad) OR They could watch their last reliable ally (Italy was also part of the Central Powers, but they weren't considered a real power and not reliable either, which proved right since they sold out Austria and Germany for land gains and false promises) get crushed in between Serbia and Russia, and then stand alone against a war that was going to happen sooner or later anyway. This wasn't the first provocation by ie France to try to get Germany into a war. There was also the crisis over Morocco... France and Spain split up Morocco DESPITE international agreements NOT to do so. Germany protested and sent a gun boat to "show flag" off of the Moroccan coast, but because France and Britain were making friends now Britain essentially told France to go ahead with the annexation/occupation, and told Germany that they'd fight alongside the French if Germany would go to war over this, despite Germany being one of the guarantor powers of Morocco's independence. France was itching to start another fight, to regain "their" provinces of Elsaß-Lothringen which they first stole under Louis XIV in the 17th Century.
A map A) that serbia was literally begging for war (in 1911 they murdered their own King and Queen for not being hostile enough towards Austria) B) Russia had no business guaranteeing them, but they wanted that war to kick off to distract from problems at home, having clearly not learned a lesson from 1904/05 C) France was gonna use this opportunity to fall into Germany's back to get "revenge" for 1870/71 (a war THEY started) and got invaded instead, because they refused to back down.
Prime or Netflix really should commission this channel for several seasons. It would be popular and markedly better than a lot of the history content on there.
Alternate title: How to throw away a victory and make the battle a loss for both parties A very nice detailed video! 👍 As a hungarian it was painful to watch though
The war called in Turkish kepçe kazan savaşı that means spoon and pot war because the servants cooks, tent makers everyone joined the war in the camp with whatever they found including cook spoons, hammers to make tent and axes to cut trees :)
Imagine starting a war between two major superpowers just because you are embarassed about how your subordinate went to start shit on his own and got stomped the second time around.
Excellent video. A little suggestion: when explaining a progressing sequence of events and movements, it can be helpful to show the year in one corner. Something not intrusive but that can be checked anytime.
Your your way to describe the battle is fantastic,make you see in your mind what happened like a movie and a very good entertaining one. Hope someone put your work in a live action,will be Fantastic to hear your voice in the background giving life to the thinking of military minds of the past
The Ottoman Sultan Probably only have 1/2/2 stats to begin with but the Christian having at leat 2/3/2 or 1/0/2 Princes. It 's indecisive battle, and very frustrating how both Armies create mistakes after mistakes that eventually all those stacks only meant huge amount casualities.
Wow! Much handier to have all 3-in1. I always thumbs-up your youtube content, and once I am earning more money I will become a Patreon supporter. You guys cover it accurately, and usually do a great job visually - especially of the commanders. (Yeah, we know - having to put in cartoon-balloon - [actually 1594] stuff.
It honestly baffles me how after an absolute tactical masterclass from the Christian commanders, that they managed to achieve such a massive defeat from the Jaws of victory
What a fascinating battle! And so well explained, amazing! It almost seemed watching the movie of it, almost live history! Sad it was almost a Christian victory but surely is a great lesson of history! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Hey! A new subscriber here; I don't know how I ended up on this channel, but I really like the content (I mean, the content itself and the way it's displayed) and seeing this video, it really strikes me that Spain had control of Portugal, a good part of Italy and what seems to be Belgium. Does anyone know of any tool or video that shows the geopolitical change of Europe over time?
I'm rather surprised to hear that rifles were so important at this point in time. I thought it was a couple of hundred years later before they became at all common.
@Levi lol, I was half way through writing "Hail Mary", but thought it bad taste considering they were Christians, and old Leroy suited the allied leader's behaviour better. When they announce the Christians were going to dig in and wait for the Sultan to come to them, I was impressed. When the Sultan arrived late to practically zero defences, I was constantly shaking my head.
Janissaries were 50.000 men at their peak (and that was the time after they abandon devshirme system). Also Ottomans did not have "nobles". They were appointed officers. The Turkish nobility stood on their Beyliks.
I've been to eger, I saw the fortress, what remained of it, where over 100 thousand Europeans apparently besieged it. It was hard to imagine, with the size of the remaining castle and layout of the city, but I got some sense of it
Did I hear the Wilhelm scream at 18:35 and 35:22? Great video guys, thanks. The only suggestion I would have that might improve it a lot would be to include a distance scale on the maps.
Great video! But it might be worth using images of soldiers from the late 16th century, rather than a mid 14th century on the thumbnail. (I'm referring to the European Knight in this case)
i know that this is an older video, so I don't expect an answer, but is there a reason why the troops that went around at about the 18 minute mark didn't go for the seemingly undefended ottoman artillery first?
How could you loot your own camp when you just got driven back from looting the enemy camp and with an enemy army in close pursuit? Fools could have won it all if not for their greed. A lesson we should all take to heart.
I really love your videos, always so great. But I *really* have to ask this question...why is it spelled "Otooman Empire" for the first 3 seconds only to be corrected at second #4? Are you testing us to see who notices? XD
@HistoryMarche great video! I have one critique however, the video keeps referring to “rifles” when there were none at this battle, and are not even known to exist yet. Musket or arquebus is much more accurate.
At 34:35 you state that the Christians were "outgunned". If the initial Ottoman artillery consisted of 170 inferior cannon and they lost 49 cannon (43+6) to the Christians in two earlier engagements, how can the Christians be "outgunned" given that the Christians had 97 superior cannon to begin with -- plus the 49 captured Ottoman cannon? Ottomans: 170 inferior cannon - 49 cannon lost = 121 inferior cannon Christians: 97 superior cannon + 49 captured Ottoman cannon = 146 cannon
@MarcusBrutusPLalso, aren't artillerymen specially trained troops, so even if they have captured additional guns, would they be able to man those pieces with decent gunners, they wouldn't have enough gunners, won't they??
They would be outgunned for a simple reason - they had not concentated their entire arillery in a single "grand battery" (as Napoleon used to over 200 years later). Each Christian contingent had it's own artillery and some was left to secure the camp (possibly all captured Turkish pieces as well). Mind you demi-culverin, which was the heaviest gun possible to move on the battle field had a range of about 550 - 600 meters. Transilvanian artillery on the southern flank (in the war-wagon camp) definitelly could not reach the main ford area, because of the curve in the battle line.
Maybe they didn't have the appropriate ammuninion for ottoman cannons. I guess both army estimated number of volleys they will fire that day and bring just enough ammunition. It seems logical since both sides might fear leaving excessive amount of ammunition behind in case of potential withdrawal. Also those cannon balls were probably hella heavy.
Lessons to be learned. The sultan followed his commanders advice, which proved right whilst the Archduke followed his commanders advice which proved wrong. Troops were driven by greed and misery
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Ottomans always faught multiple european kingdoms at once. That must've been challenging.
@Unnamed Namedg h76
if you enter the house of the lion, you know that the lion will show you compassion
I read a book were a hungarian war prisoner wrote that the turks saw wounding opponents in combat aiming at the hands or aiming at there horses were seen cowardly so they always aimed at the head. Shows that even the europeans had better equipments the turks managed the beat them thanks to there courage and warrior mentality
Imagine hearing that the only reason the Ottomans didn't take over your town was because it was deemed "too easy" and not worthy of the Sultan.
@Kaya Gürcü
Except there is that little inconvenient fact that they took the women.
Oh and then there is the issue of Janissaries.
@Dave Brown are you talking about the ottomans?
@Doc, Stock, & Barrel That should be in Monty Python
By this time, the Ottomans had reached the very end of the logistical capacities of 16th-19th Century armies in Europe. You could just barely move artillery from Constantinople to Vienna in the spring and summer before the fall rains set in. You could prepare the previous fall, as the Ottomans did in 1683, but your enemies would therefore also have time to prepare.
The Ottomans could not establish a closer logistical base, such as at Belgrade, because they were also at war with the Safavid Dynasty of Persia to the east. Basically, they had expanded as far as they could, anywhere.
Not really after industrial revolution at 18 century UK has bigger army
@Yamamoto Hiromori Roman did not carried Artilery at all and Ottoman Army was going to siege so they had to carry the heav artilery which can weight up to tons.
@J Mansfield Remember that even a more or less modern army lost millions to illness only one century ago....spanish flue was also a death sentence for many soldiers in 1919-1922. Due to lack of natural working immunsystem because poorly fed.
And in Ukraine we see that by destroying bridges, warehouses with supplies it's not much better.
So not only those old time it was dufficult to fed an army properly.
In these days only mechanized warfare will be immuun to these problems if the drivers can sit in their office to stear the robots.
@Reinier NN A modern army could manage that certainly but armies from this period had ALL manner of trouble whether they fought, marched or rested. Local infrastructure would struggle to feed and house an army camped for months. Plague, dysentery and VD were constant companions. Also, God forbid there’s a bad harvest in the region.
Well written.
shocking how quickly and easily a victory could be turned into a defeat.
story of my life
Watch a few Las Vegas Raiders games, it will become commonplace.
Playing chess I would say that is common things. But this battle was interesting.
In Turkish this battle is known as "Kepçe Kazan Savaşı" (The Battle of Ladle and Cauldron) in honor of the cooks and other auxiliary units that took up arms and fought in the face of imminent defeat.
@Someone in 1 muslim family there are 4-5 children, and even so from 7 bilion of people are just 1,5 bilion muslims, so stop make yourself dumb.
Wow after numerous cautious, brilliant and disciplined moves by the Chriatians, greed took over just before the final moment. This is a good textbook study on the necessity to remain disciplined til the very end.
@CuzImMOODYit is exactly because of God that the early muslim streak of victories turned to defeats ... to this day.
@Ghazan The Janissaries and Ghazis and the Sultan’s personal guard were certainly disciplined but I don’t believe the Delis and Tatars were to any great extent. Seems like most of these stories end with them running away. But the Europeans had no proper soldiers at this time and really wouldn’t for almost another century.
@Cem Ersever Wow! You were there?
A lot of the Christian mercenaries were not getting paid, they were fighting against Islam but they were living only out of loot from the enemies. It was not greed, but they had to make a living out of it.
Channels like this are the reason I’m so into history. Battles this well animated and documented put everything to scale for me to understand and you really grasp that these are thousands of men fighting for what they believe is a good cause or for pay for their families. So much blood and gunpowder. Thank you for what you do!
@NeonKnight - Ah Blasphemy!How dare you insult the gods!
Same brother
@Hello total war does a bad job at simulating real life battles. Just look at how few troops it lets you deploy you burger
Lol. You should try Omega 3s. This channel is far better
@Vintinoo
total war led to these channels being created.
so therefore, it total war is the reason you are so into history.
What a dramatic battle. I wish older battles could have been preserved in the same way more "modern" battles are. Each one is a story full of bravery and tragedy, with dramatic plot-twists around every turn. Imagine all battles Rome fought being as well documented as this one.
Modern battles be like more hide in cover and shoot
honestly rome had pretty good documentation, honestly its more of the non-mediterranian powers that got forgotten more. We have a lot from the romans, egyptians, greeks, and more.
Its pretty hard to find great battles of sub-saharren african history, though the few times we did get so (example: adal-ethiopian war) we see they were quite fantastic and very interesting.
China, india, and japan were also pretty well documented for its time, but the surrounding areas in asia have a lot less recorded battles saved from their history.
In the americas we basically have nothing that was saved from before the spanish.
@Stopreadingmyusername I remember hearing that (I think Romans) used burning pigs against Carthaginian elephants because the sounds they made would make the elephants turn around and trample their own army in fear
@Scipio Africanus Eh, fact is that sources are usually contradictory and not usually 100 percent accurate.
@Richard Lindquist
Congratulations, you've officially been chosen to receive my personal nomination for this week's:
"Most Underrated Comment I've Read This Week Award...!!"
🤪 😜
1 hour extravaganza!!!! Loved every moment of it guys! Your shorter productions are obviously great and that is why we are here, but having a total storyline told from beginning to end is ironically more engaging then the shorter devided parts.
Brilliant, love it and please make more!
Agree it is indeed an extravaganza. Prime or Netflix should commission them for a multi series deal.
Just realized it was 1 hour long. The video was very well made.
Dear HistoryMarche, I really love your channel and content. Would you consider covering Khmelnytsky uprising and Polish - Zaporozhian war? There are a lot of epic battles, plot twists and overall it is the one of the most important events, (if not the most) in the ukrainian history. In fact it is the most important war of Eastern Europe, because it marked the beginning of rise of Russia and fall of Poland-Lithuania. Plus nobody on youtube made a good strategic analysis on it like you do, as far as I know.
Thx
@CREEPERSLAYER2013 ROBLOX4LIFE A Pole here, well Im pretty sure they are the closest to Ukrainian culture
Better Petro Sahaidachny decisive compaign against moscovites
@CREEPERSLAYER2013 ROBLOX4LIFE their songs are in Ukrainian- they were relocated to Russia (Kuban region) by Catherine the Great. Now they speak Russian of course but their music and singing is definitely Ukrainian (and was back then too!).
Dude do you really consider zaporozhian cossacks Ukrainians?
Kings and Generals is starting did a video on the cossacks, and he’ll go further into Ukrainian history, if you’re interested
This was such a great look on this battle. You guys did a great job at making this documentary series. While I had known that the Ottomans won this battle for most of this video it didn't seem like it and I was beginning to question whether I recalled my memory correctly. Amazing battle and video. Keep doing what you are and I really enjoyed it.
The way this channel studies hundred year old registries and records from many different sources and then condenses them into an hour long video it's simply astounding.
So much information, so many names, strategies and places all portraited so perfectly and with so much clarity and care that it is perfectly manageable by the viewer and easily retained thanks to the masterful visuals.
I wish all history professors would try to teach history with such passion!
They who don't know their history, are damned to repeat it. And how true it is for our time.
What an amazing story.. and it all actually happened. I think about all the people who died that day and wonder if they’d have chosen differently now that we know how it all ended that day.
Now that I've beaten Kingdom Come: Deliverance, the name Sigismund instantly catches my attention
same here!!! same hare!!!
I immediatly liked that game. Its so awesome.
@Mario Dominguez And Varna
@Kábel Pretty sure from the perspective of a Bohemian peasant you wouldn't be very fond of him. It's easy to forget just how catastrophic wars are when you're viewing them occur as squares fighting each other on a map in a video. You're not seeing the fields of dead and dying soldiers, burning villages and corpses of entire families of peasants strewn about who had no say in the war to begin with. Not to mention the years of suffering that often follows any war. They hardly give a shit who was right or wrong.
@Chase Crompton all the historical Sigismunds are named after the Sigismund from Warhammer 40k. The dates check out.
Just goes to show you the value of persistence. The Ottoman head honcho stayed and rallied his troops, while that archduke dude fled to the stream and didn’t even bother heading into his own camp, so he lost. Like an old staff sergeant I knew used to say, discipline wins battles.
@P T These numbers are subject to great bias. Like imagine the first fight, Christians lost 15 men while there are Janissaries shooting them? And Ottomans lost 1000? Westerners sure know how to manipulate the results. Howerver, I would agree that Ottomans in total would outnumber them due to their old Roman conscription methods but it would not be 2 or 3 to one.
It didn't hurt that the Turks significantly outnumbered the Christians. Staying in the fight with a riotous army would've done more harm than good for the Christians
Close order drill #1
@D DC Napoleon sure knew a thing or two about winning battles. Thank you for sharing this.
“Victory belongs to he who perseveres the longest.” - Napoleon
Love this channel, very good coverage of this war. I also find the bloody revenge raids between the Cossacks and Crimean Tartars very interesting over this time period, even when the Habsburgs and Ottomans were at peace they couldn't stop these people from killing each other.
@KUSTURUCU Well that goes for all people around the world through history I guess.
@Роман Гнечко Still doesn't change the fact that what i wrote above is true
@KUSTURUCU Cossacs were of Ruthenian-Polish-Lituanian ethnicity.
For the whole history Turks fought against each other more than they fought against the foreigners you know
The Habsburg strategy on ottoman affairs is something to be studied more closely. They literally refused to meet them on an open battlefield until the long turkish war. Dont fight an enemy on the open field you cant beat and wait for a more opportune time and place. Much to learn in that.
@Billy Jesus Does it matter that 20 countries are allied against you if your army outnumbers theirs ?
Of course not. I
At Varna, since you are fond of that example, the Ottomon force outnumbered the allied army by about 20,000 soldiers (40,000 (high estimate) vs 60,000).
@Billy Jesus Does it matter that 20 countries are allied against you if your army outnumbers theirs ?
Of course not. I
At Varna, since you are fond of that example, the Ottomon force outnumbered the allied army by about 20,000 soldiers (40,000 (high estimate) vs 60,000).
@Billy Jesus Does it matter that 20 countries are allied against you if your army outnumbers theirs ?
Of course not. I
At Varna, since you are fond of that example, the Ottomon force outnumbered the allied army by about 20,000 soldiers (40,000 (high estimate) vs 60,000).
@Billy Jesus Does it matter that 20 countries are allied against you if your army outnumbers theirs ?
Of course not. I
At Varna, since you are fond of that example, the Ottomon force outnumbered the allied army by about 20,000 soldiers (40,000 (high estimate) vs 60,000).
@Billy Jesus Does it matter that 20 countries are allied against you if your army outnumbers theirs ?
Of course not. I
At Varna, since you are fond of that example, the Ottomon force outnumbered the allied army by about 20,000 soldiers (40,000 (high estimate) vs 60,000).
Can you just imagine thousands of men and horses on a battle feild on a large scale. Talk about balls of steel. every battle sounds like a movie nowadays
If you play video games you might like the total war series, its on steam. Some are old but amazing to play, empire tw and napoleon is this time period.
Balls of steel you say ?
Did you miss the videos of battles where 90% of an army would run away as soon as a battle wasnt a 100% win for them in the first minutes.
The fact we have made into legends the rare occansions of people standing their ground and fighting to the last or refusing to stop fighting even tho the enemy had the upper hand at first clearly shows that it was unexpected and very rare so it points that quite often most people will run away as soon as the fight begins.
Were some of the men brave - no doubt
but majority were just like any of us who would rather prefer to live than die on some field for someone`s agenda.
Lets not forget a lot of those people were on wages at the time so it made no sense for them to die and not have a chance to use the money.
Routing was even more common in armies that levied their soldiers without actual payment , so you risk your life for a potential loot - wasnt a great deal for most.
Few had the mentioned balls of steel.
Im just going to point out that whoever you are, you are a truly gifted narrator who has yet to be aptly recognised for the talent you are. I would love to hear you narrate the "Earth war stories" from the Alien franchise literature by Dark Horse comics, or better yet Robert E Howards Conan. However for now I am happy to learn of historic confrontations because your voice is so very easy on the ear. Please keep doing what you do, and I hope that one day you will be discovered for greater projects where you belong.
You tell the tale of the battle well. It is astounding to hear how the Christian forces prevailed in every clash until they lost discipline and fell to looting before the battle was over; talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory! One edit I would recommend is to replace all references to" rifles" to "muskets". I much doubt that more than a few - if indeed any! - of the firearms were rifled, even among the better-equipped Christian forces.
These guys really know his to tell a true account of history, superb details and most enjoyable to listen and watch right to the end. Quality .
I love the combined videos! Much easier to follow, and obviously easy to watch in the proper order also! Well done! Brother!
Awesome illustrations and explanations, was genuinely enjoyable to watch!
What a great presentation of the events. Enjoyed every single minute of it
I got to admit, Mehmed III had me during most of the videos. Looking very incompetent, culminating in his decision to retreat to the camp, leaving 4000 janissaries to their doom outside the camp and looking like a complete fool by mounting no defense of his camp wall, he waited the enemy to get in and turned the tide. The ability of charading a chaos is the acme of discipline according to Tsun Tzu.
@StillCant BeSilenced Haha, I wouldn't take offense from a random guy online, but let me remind you, as a part of NATO, I am in higher rank than you so don't be like that if we meet, if you're still in service 😊
@StillCant BeSilenced What does make sense? You think I'm Pro-Ottoman because I am a Turk? Unlike you Americans we don't have a shallow history, one country and two parties. We are deeper than that. I am one of the man Pro-Republic people that you probably have never heard of, who make like 40-45% of Turkish population
One of the best historical based KZclip channels, great work, love everything you are doing 🥰!!
Agree. Would go as far as saying one of the best history channels. They deserve a shot at producing series for mainstream TV. This really is good stuff and would be great if more could see it👍
I love your content. Have you ever thought about making a video on the Rebellions of Upper & Lower Canada in 1837/38? It was Canada's failed revolution against the British.
@Dec3k5 the federation was formed on the very principal's Mackenzie fought for. it was "against the british" because it ultimately aimed for a self governing sovereign libertarian republic. i for one would love to have seen an independent Canada like our brothers to the South. I bet you wear a mask while driving solo tho.
It wasn't against "the British" it was mainly due to political corruption and a desire for local reform. Thankfully it was defeated, many of the rebels hung, and the Canadian federation was formed.
Well presented as always. keep up the good work!
Last week, I was reading a first-hand source about this war in the Archives of the Prime Minister in Istanbul. According to the source, the Ottoman Sultan didn't want to join in the war, but the official historian of the palace Hodja Sadeddin motivated him to join in it. Finally, Mehmet the third joined the war. Hodja Sadeddin was Sultan`s advisor at the same time.
which document in the BOA discusses this?
This battle shows that if you stay in the fight you have a chance of winning. Also, it seems that the tens of thousands of people who died on both sides died for nothing.
Lets say both sides reduced the pressure on the border by losing their belongings and guaranteed some years long silence
A map Which reminds me...
Herbert Asquith's widdow (Asquith was PM at at the outbreak of WW1, Churchill was in the Admiralty) would later on write about the meeting that took place at Dowding Street No 10...
She wrote that everyone was in a somber mood, when war with Germany was announced. Except Churchill, who was "beaming with glee"...
A map They didn't annex French territory, they took back what belonged to Germany in the first place, and most of which (but not all by this time) was MAJORITY German. Particularly Alsace. Lorraine did have more majority French areas through re-settling etc, but was still historically German.
But yes, Germany also figured this war would happen sooner or later, and at the going rate the enemies would eventually become too powerful (with the alliance constellation) and it was a now or never thing.
But simply throwing Austria to the wolves would have made their situation even worse, which played into their decision to fight and strike preemptively as well.
Alliances not working that way is also why Britain didn't intervene in the fight to begin with (I'm sure the government might have wanted to, but it wasn't an alliance case + there was NO public support for it, until the Belgian invasion + the propaganda that followed from it [hacking off the hands of children, bayonetting babies, etc..]).
A map Austria was eager to finally punish Serbia, yes.
There were many more incidents that lead to that though, such as Serbia refusing Austrian investigators, Serbia allowing captured accomplices of Princep to "escape" (so they couldn't be questioned), etc.
I find it disgusting that the plot being directly linked to the Serb state & military is never discussed in history, and most people simply assume this was some "misguided" youth who killed the Austrian heir.
Ironically enough the heir was very unpopular with Kaiser Franz Josef and court, because he wanted to reform the A-H Empire & give equal rights to ALL, rather than Germans and Hungarians lording over everyone else. He wanted to reorganize it as "the united states of Greater Austria".
He was also very well liked in Bosnia, and when he was killed there were riots all over Sarajewo and other Bosnian towns, where Serbs were hunted down and beaten (some were killed), Serb shops etc destroyed. Austrians had to send in troops to restore order and protect the Serbs from the Bosnians.
And realistically what was Germany supposed to do, once it became clear that Serbia wasn't going to accept Austria's demands (so despite all their terrorism and interference in Austrian lands there was still a chance of peace, but they had had enough) and there would be war?
When Russia started mobilizing, they asked the French what they would do (which is why I said alliances don't work that way, because if they did there would have been no need to even ask to begin with), and the French essentially said "we will do what is best for France" and also started mobilizing.
At that point Germany had two options:
Fight and strike first (rather than allow Russia and France to get fully mobilized, especially Russia fully mobilizing would be bad)
OR
They could watch their last reliable ally (Italy was also part of the Central Powers, but they weren't considered a real power and not reliable either, which proved right since they sold out Austria and Germany for land gains and false promises) get crushed in between Serbia and Russia, and then stand alone against a war that was going to happen sooner or later anyway.
This wasn't the first provocation by ie France to try to get Germany into a war. There was also the crisis over Morocco... France and Spain split up Morocco DESPITE international agreements NOT to do so. Germany protested and sent a gun boat to "show flag" off of the Moroccan coast, but because France and Britain were making friends now Britain essentially told France to go ahead with the annexation/occupation, and told Germany that they'd fight alongside the French if Germany would go to war over this, despite Germany being one of the guarantor powers of Morocco's independence.
France was itching to start another fight, to regain "their" provinces of Elsaß-Lothringen which they first stole under Louis XIV in the 17th Century.
A map A) that serbia was literally begging for war (in 1911 they murdered their own King and Queen for not being hostile enough towards Austria)
B) Russia had no business guaranteeing them, but they wanted that war to kick off to distract from problems at home, having clearly not learned a lesson from 1904/05
C) France was gonna use this opportunity to fall into Germany's back to get "revenge" for 1870/71 (a war THEY started) and got invaded instead, because they refused to back down.
Prime or Netflix really should commission this channel for several seasons. It would be popular and markedly better than a lot of the history content on there.
That would definitely be awesome on my end :)
Great set of videos, thank you - very informative and logically set out. Where there any final casualty figures given?
Thanks again for the collab, looking forward to working with HistoryMarche again soon!
Likewise. Looking forward to late July!
Alternate title: How to throw away a victory and make the battle a loss for both parties
A very nice detailed video! 👍 As a hungarian it was painful to watch though
@Johnny Boy they didn't capitalise on the win, but thats not what pyrrhic means. last reply.
@boz I guess a Pyrrhic victory is still technically a victory. Although, not a victory of their own making, which is why I consider it a loss.
Haahahaha
nah the Ottomans won. no ambiguity about that
The war called in Turkish kepçe kazan savaşı that means spoon and pot war because the servants cooks, tent makers everyone joined the war in the camp with whatever they found including cook spoons, hammers to make tent and axes to cut trees :)
as the famous saying goes; the spoon is mightier then the sword!
man, i really love your content. i hope that after i get my job situation figured out i can support you guys. you are doing amazing work!
Imagine starting a war between two major superpowers just because you are embarassed about how your subordinate went to start shit on his own and got stomped the second time around.
It's really super interesting to learn about battles I had never ever heard of before, from countries I'm not even from.
Greetings from Türkiye 🇹🇷😉
Excellent video.
A little suggestion: when explaining a progressing sequence of events and movements, it can be helpful to show the year in one corner. Something not intrusive but that can be checked anytime.
Crazy situation. Thanks for the history lesson!
Your your way to describe the battle is fantastic,make you see in your mind what happened like a movie and a very good entertaining one. Hope someone put your work in a live action,will be Fantastic to hear your voice in the background giving life to the thinking of military minds of the past
Nice to see more videos of conflicts from the pike and shot era.
Check out the channel "SandRhoman History" for great content about this era.
I love those documentaries talking about events in History mainly unknown. Especially about battles and wars in the Balkans.
The Ottoman Sultan Probably only have 1/2/2 stats to begin with but the Christian having at leat 2/3/2 or 1/0/2 Princes. It 's indecisive battle, and very frustrating how both Armies create mistakes after mistakes that eventually all those stacks only meant huge amount casualities.
@Ggoddkkiller + Siege ability 5% and National Manpower 15% skills
The worst of all it happaned because Suleiman killed his 5/4/5 son!!..
Are the stats from eu4 ?
Discovering and subbing to this channel feels like Christmas morning. What an awesome presentation. New sub.
Tus vídeos son la ostia, de lo mejor que se puede ver en cuestiones militares de KZclip. Un placer verlos.
Wow! Much handier to have all 3-in1. I always thumbs-up your youtube content, and once I am earning more money I will become a Patreon supporter. You guys cover it accurately, and usually do a great job visually - especially of the commanders. (Yeah, we know - having to put in cartoon-balloon - [actually 1594] stuff.
Absolutely brillant history lesson, thankyou.
these battles are relatively unknown by the larger world, thanks for posting
It honestly baffles me how after an absolute tactical masterclass from the Christian commanders, that they managed to achieve such a massive defeat from the Jaws of victory
Gold and plunder is what drives these men not god
Love you videos thanks for your hard work and I never take you guys for granted thank you
Great video up until your last verse. This, like most battles are not "for nothing". The continuation of their histories is everything.
What a fascinating battle! And so well explained, amazing! It almost seemed watching the movie of it, almost live history! Sad it was almost a Christian victory but surely is a great lesson of history! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Correct@noor indra , like in almost all conflicts.
Very good video!
Can I add that it would be awesome to have pictures or drawing of soldiers equipment or what they look like?
This video was excellent! Please keep making more
Can't imagine the real scenes of such battlefield 👀
Nice history lesson! Thanks!👍❤️
İsmin Attila sen Türk müsün?
It’s wild how many times blood lust and premature looting has resulted in commanders and their troops snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Hey! A new subscriber here; I don't know how I ended up on this channel, but I really like the content (I mean, the content itself and the way it's displayed) and seeing this video, it really strikes me that Spain had control of Portugal, a good part of Italy and what seems to be Belgium. Does anyone know of any tool or video that shows the geopolitical change of Europe over time?
I'm rather surprised to hear that rifles were so important at this point in time. I thought it was a couple of hundred years later before they became at all common.
I love how the maps look like!
You do an amazing job there.
Awesome video, love this series
We need a historical total war game based in the 1500-1600s!
If you are ever feeling worthless just keep calm and remember THIS actually happened.
props for showing the names of the towns/cities/settlements in their native languages (judging by those few slovakian ones i know)
Thank you! Extremely interesting story about discipline determination prudence clear planning and morale.
One of the biggest fumbles in history... seemingly very well done until the moment where everything fell apart for no reason.
For real, if it was a movie I would call it bad writing 😂 But history is like that sometimes
علي ياسر .Never said she was, mate
@Chado Sama I couldn't agree more, he really did have a Leroy Jenkins mindset 😂😂
@Levi lol, I was half way through writing "Hail Mary", but thought it bad taste considering they were Christians, and old Leroy suited the allied leader's behaviour better.
When they announce the Christians were going to dig in and wait for the Sultan to come to them, I was impressed. When the Sultan arrived late to practically zero defences, I was constantly shaking my head.
@Chado Sama amazing write up there mate love the "Leroy Jenkins" quote 😂😂😂😂
Thank you for this great video. Do you know what happened to cannons on the battlefield?
@Turcarum Imperator Rahatladım lan
Ottoman army captured the cannons after the battle and copied the austrian designs.
Janissaries were 50.000 men at their peak (and that was the time after they abandon devshirme system).
Also Ottomans did not have "nobles". They were appointed officers. The Turkish nobility stood on their Beyliks.
Ottoman "nobles" (laughing in Turkish 😅)
You guys should make a series of on Timur rise to power next.
@Magnus Coles he was crippled when his gang were stealing life stock. He was young when he was injured.
Regardless, best Uzbek commander.
@Magnus Coles The guy starts with a gang of 5, so count the fights he had when he was a kid. Once he becomes an HAN, there is no defeat.
@Motörhead you know why his title is timur the lang? which means timur the crippled? that should explain his early defeats
@RefTop give date
@Motörhead timur was defeated in his early life several times and so gengis khan
I've been to eger, I saw the fortress, what remained of it, where over 100 thousand Europeans apparently besieged it. It was hard to imagine, with the size of the remaining castle and layout of the city, but I got some sense of it
100 thousand? That seems a bit much
Did I hear the Wilhelm scream at 18:35 and 35:22? Great video guys, thanks. The only suggestion I would have that might improve it a lot would be to include a distance scale on the maps.
Great content as always
Great video! But it might be worth using images of soldiers from the late 16th century, rather than a mid 14th century on the thumbnail. (I'm referring to the European Knight in this case)
i know that this is an older video, so I don't expect an answer, but is there a reason why the troops that went around at about the 18 minute mark didn't go for the seemingly undefended ottoman artillery first?
Thanks for the video. that was a really unforeseen result haha. even the side who won could not claim the spoils
Wow, This is a amazing battle.
Excellent narration & descriotion of the battle
Another great All Parts Series. Brilliant. 👍
How could you loot your own camp when you just got driven back from looting the enemy camp and with an enemy army in close pursuit? Fools could have won it all if not for their greed. A lesson we should all take to heart.
thank you for this, I never knew about this part of history.
I was like "Meh 1 hour, too long, I just look into it"... couldn't stop "looking into" for the full hour. Subscribed.
First of your videos I've seen, and it was very good. I'll be watching more.
I really love your videos, always so great. But I *really* have to ask this question...why is it spelled "Otooman Empire" for the first 3 seconds only to be corrected at second #4? Are you testing us to see who notices? XD
I love this documentaries! Thank you!
Those deaths weren't for nothing. They gave me 58 minutes of enjoyment.
Imagine that you suddenly being teleported in to that battle.
Between two mad armies and they know what you think about them indeed...:D
@HistoryMarche Great content btw. Only recently found your channel. Off to learn about William!
Fair enough lol
@HistoryMarche great video! I have one critique however, the video keeps referring to “rifles” when there were none at this battle, and are not even known to exist yet. Musket or arquebus is much more accurate.
Well done .. a brilliant peek into the past ...
Didn't expect that lucky outcome
At 34:35 you state that the Christians were "outgunned". If the initial Ottoman artillery consisted of 170 inferior cannon and they lost 49 cannon (43+6) to the Christians in two earlier engagements, how can the Christians be "outgunned" given that the Christians had 97 superior cannon to begin with -- plus the 49 captured Ottoman cannon?
Ottomans: 170 inferior cannon - 49 cannon lost = 121 inferior cannon
Christians: 97 superior cannon + 49 captured Ottoman cannon = 146 cannon
@MarcusBrutusPLalso, aren't artillerymen specially trained troops, so even if they have captured additional guns, would they be able to man those pieces with decent gunners, they wouldn't have enough gunners, won't they??
They would be outgunned for a simple reason - they had not concentated their entire arillery in a single "grand battery" (as Napoleon used to over 200 years later). Each Christian contingent had it's own artillery and some was left to secure the camp (possibly all captured Turkish pieces as well). Mind you demi-culverin, which was the heaviest gun possible to move on the battle field had a range of about 550 - 600 meters. Transilvanian artillery on the southern flank (in the war-wagon camp) definitelly could not reach the main ford area, because of the curve in the battle line.
Maybe they didn't have the appropriate ammuninion for ottoman cannons. I guess both army estimated number of volleys they will fire that day and bring just enough ammunition. It seems logical since both sides might fear leaving excessive amount of ammunition behind in case of potential withdrawal. Also those cannon balls were probably hella heavy.
Point.
I'm living 4 kilometres from Mezőkeresztes. Thank You so much History Marche! Transylvania and Hungary are the same since more than You think!😁
always History Marche introducing a wonderful coverage thanks
Lessons to be learned. The sultan followed his commanders advice, which proved right whilst the Archduke followed his commanders advice which proved wrong. Troops were driven by greed and misery
Just awesome! thanks, really enjoy your videos.
Appreciate this combined version
Amazing work. Thank you very much.
July 27, 2022 - Aside from providing a really enthralling account of a battle that few people will ever become aware of. This video shows that History is far more interesting than the cookie cutter entertainment that the entertainment industry currently offers. There are so many stories of real events, and people from many countries that are compelling, informative and interesting. Fortunately, more people like those responsible for HistoryMarche, and other channels and websites. Are offering productions that are both educational and entertaining. In my opinion, one of the reasons so many errors are made in Geopolitics generally. Is because the diplomates and politicians from most countries have no knowledge of important events and people of the past. That strongly influence the events of today and the future. Not knowing about regional and cultural conflicts that took place centuries ago, but continue to impact on the present day. Creates opportunities for grave miscalculations, that can result in devastating wars, and social upheaval. One can only hope that as people get bored with the offerings of the entertainment industry. They will find more informative and engaging offerings online. Also, as technologies evolve, presentations of non-fiction will be more and more engaging and immersive.
What kind of ammo did the artillery shoot in those battles?
I can't imagine shooting a big stone to be very effective against infantry...
Stone or metal round shot for the most part. Actually pretty devastating against massed infantry fighting in close formations.
Very good & neutral analysis. 👍
And *that* , children, is how one snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.