Thanks for another great vid

@@adamandsharonrowe6605 Thank you for watching.

@@HistoryMarche your channel definitely deserves to be far more well known particularly given the quality of your content

Best ending yet. "The Roman-slayer."

@@timmcclymont3527 Thank you sir. Yeah, that's how contemporaries described Kaloyan.

Yeah he's talking about the cuman

@transylvanian Kaloyan was a cuman himself, but a christian. The whole Asen dynasty were cumans.

@transylvanian cumans were not your average mercenaries. He had family ties with their leaders and tribal chiefs.

@transylvanian sorry, maybe I didn't understand you quite well. My point is that there was no clear distinction between settled down Bulgarians and Nomadic Cumans. That's why I pointed out Kaloyan's cuman descent. Actually many Cumans settled in Bulgaria around this time. All of the ruling dynasties of Bulgaria were from Cuman descent, up until the Ottoman invasion.

@@Biosapiens ANd none of them spoke ''cuman'' or called himself ''cuman'' they were all Bulgarrians.

imagine the arrogance

@@combatantezoteric2965 Bulgaria was never ruled by Romanians lol....

@@combatantezoteric2965 It's not correct to say it was ruled by Vlachians, they considered themselves Bulgarians and Bulgaria was always ruled by people who considered themselves Bulgarian. It doesn't matter where they came from, it only matters what they feel is their identitiy.

@@combatantezoteric2965 Romanian don't have right to talk about history because they don't have any history at all!

​@@christos.5302 I think this is a misunderstanding, because medieval Greeks refered to their country as "Romania" and themselves as "Romanians"

Greetings from Somalia 🇸🇴 to Bulgaria 🇧🇬

​@@geletozThank you friend, may borh we get prosperity

lol

I wonder if one of them shouted "It's a trap!"

Me at 7:17: Would be pretty funny if there were a couple thousand bulgarians in that forest, eh? Me at 9:42: lol they dead af

@@paracovo 😅

They were quite aware that they are riding into a trap, but thought that may be God is on their side :)

Feigned retreats were not common place in Western Europe at the time, it would happen over and over again to western armies. Legnica, Nikopolis, Grunwald, Kircholm are just few examples from the top of my head where armies unexposed to such tactics were baited into over extending.

That's how history work

imagines be like Moral Story: Don't let King your Army starts Chase Bulgarian Empire army set you Trap be killing army own but The King didn't Order Commander yourself.

jake otto the Mongols are famous for using variations on feigned retreat over and over again so its not just a crusader problem

The most kills done in medieval Europe was not during pitch battle but after one army broke and started to flee. It was easy to run down disorganized fleeing enemy then. It was also the least hazardous way of killing as much of your enemies. So Euros tended to do it as much as possible. Good tactic against armies on foot... Not so good against steppe horsemen that are highly mobile. However, if you are not used to fight against steppe horsemen you are not familiar with their faint retreats. Kinda like Celts fighting Romans... For Celts single combat was quite common while Romans didn't had that concept. Happend that after single combat Romans stormed forward to avenge their fallen comrade instead of saying "Right, we lost, let's go home."

He is born in 1115

Who was 90 y o?

Many years. Much old. Wow!

It was unusual, but not that crazy to be that old back in the day. The reason why the average life span was much shorter was mostly because of the extremely high child mortality rate. Romans routinely became 70-80 for instance.

Amr ibn al-As was born almost 1500 years before and lived for over 90 years.

Thank you sir.

Lesser known to who? This battle is pretty much famous for everyone who's into Crusader and Medieval European history.

Even though a it's a bit bias (and i'm sure you know what I mean) , it's really interesting to watch.

Lesser known? I learned about this battle in 2nd grade.

Nice, serves the westerner right for mingling in the Balkans.

At least he had better chance than to be sodomized constantly by the Catholic priests back home

@Nuraby _ Afghan muslim tribes do it all the time apparently.

That's a myth.

@@starhawck what do you think happened to him then

NO! DO NOT EAT THE CRAYONS! AND NO CHARGING THE TURKISH LINE NEAR NECROPOLIS WITHOUT INFANTRY!

The Battle of Patay is the perfect opposition to your comments. When 180 French knights destroy the half of an English army of about 5000 men. less than a hundred men lost on the French side. Followed the battle of Castillon with another massacre .. ^^ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Patay

@@manualteirac9817 because it was west europeans vs west europeans, there is no one from outside the bubble to expose how amateurish their style of warfare is!

@@manualteirac9817 The link says 1500 knights vs 5000 mostly archers. The French discovered them maneuvering for position and charged and instantly routed them. Then chased them down the road. If it was Subatai the French force disappears with no trace. It confirms the original hypothesis I think.

@@colingravon9810 It's 180 knigth charge on archer + footmen at arms. 1st phase, after it's a 2scd phase with engligh flee.

In short we like the skulls of dem enemies

you know what's up hehe

Слава на всички български владетели победители!

... 'cetp Baldwin was never turned into skull-chalice....but hey, a being a bit overly excited about your people's leaders is not that bad

@@LittleBaboon not that you can say that for certain he didn't lol..guy was defeated like Niko was, was captured alive or dead like Niko...his head was available to Kaloyan..doesn't matter if he did or didn't turn his skull into a wine cup. I will personally assume his head was turnt into a wine cup by some Bulgarian prison guard if not kaloyan

I'm just saying, Kaloyan was probably more Latin than the "Latins".

Vasile Iuga why tho he was slav

@@affentaktik2810 Well, there is no concrete evidence, but the historians pretty much agree that he and his entire family was mixed with Cuman origin. Probably why Cumans were allies of Bulgaria and after Cumania was destroyed many of them were allowed to settle in Bulgaria. A lot of places and names still are from cuman origin.

@@affentaktik2810 no , he not was slav, he has cumans( turkish) or even vlah origins

He most likely had vlachian and cuman ancestry

Thank you sir. Indeed the ambush was well planned and executed. I love battles that involve a bit of trickery.

We are still in the underground, neighbor.

When we Bulgarians and Romanians cooperate we achieve great things

@@tonit4233 ahh!!! Good times! Carol why the fuck you made us attacking the bulgarians in 1913?

@@tiziogg6350Our ruler Ferdinand was following his dynastic goals. He couldn't have cared less about Bulgaria. Deciding to conquer Constantinople instead of occuping the ethnically bulgarian macedonia, this self-centered megaloman doomed us and our relationship with all balkan nations.

I'll definitely do more topics from the Balkans & Carpathians, those are the two regions I'm quite fascinated with. So Bulgaria too is very much part of my plans.

@@HistoryMarche Keep your promise and become my favorite history channel :D

@@HistoryMarche I have to friendly warn you, the peoples of the Balkans are quite itchy, the comment section can be easily turned into a war zone -:)

@@johnnyplatis i haven't seen to many wars, most people making jokes and putting hardships behind them

@@pyroshrimp4073 i know what you mean, and maybe joking is the best way to clear the heavy atmosphere. peace.

Nice Trivia! Thank you for that!

From what I have read, the allegation that Mariya poisoned, her husband Henry isn't supported by any evidence.

@@nikolaygk3179 I was there. The little sl*t did it.

Breaking promises is not a good characteristic no matter how much 20’s Nationalist propaganda tells you different

​@@nikolaygk3179 Many sources say, that he was very bad and abusive towards her. Because he viewed her as lesser than him. Which was ironic, because everyone, who knows history, knows how sophisticated and moder for its time South Europeans were compared to North and West in that period of time. For the hygiene i will not even talk.😂

Cheers! Thank you for watching.

@@HistoryMarche +1 Bulgarian here. Good job 👍

Also watch Battle of Maritsa. 800 Turks vs 70,000 Serbs

Просто някъв джендър викаш

I’m a Greek, not really a nationalist but hearing about crusaders getting killed is pretty cool

A трябва. Националист не значи Валери Симеонов.

Nothing wrong in loving your country

Thank you for watching.

a army of 100K men around those times is impossible, even the Ottoman Empire suffered to host a big army of 100K men

@@mariano98ify yeah, I was surprised as well. But when you consider that in 1040 the revolt of Peter Delyan fielded an army of 40 000 and this was just one province and not an official army. But I am almost certain it was around 100k.

​@@ivassilev1728 you said that, a "province revolt", a bunch of pleb and folks, they werent men at arms, they were men and women with barely weapons and armour, in any war-age, the lords need farmers working the camps, you cant afford so many men at the battle far of their home because you have to feed them and maybe the campaigns persist by years and not weeks, the Roman Empire pre-arabic invasion when they have 13 millions of inhabitants they just could afford a 300K men on their armies

@@mariano98ify It could be that the numbers are greatly exaggerated by sources or that it is because of the large population of the region and the fact that bulgarian soldiers were lightly armoured so they did not have to spend the same amount of resources on fielding and maintaining an army. Or it could be a cause of the rising power of the Bulgarian empire. Unfortunately a lot of the sources on the period were destroyed and information is quite scarse. It could also be a trick employed by Kaloyan to secure his alliance with the crusaders as his state was considered not legitimate and he needs somebody to officially acknowledge the status of the empire(which happens a few months after the battle). Another possibility is that the large number is due to the allied kuman soldiers which are quite numerous. This comment got a bit too long and I apologise for it. I just wanted to give out all of the theories I have on it.

"At least i'm not chicken"

Haha

Louis of Blois to Enrico Dendolo during the meeting: "I denounce Venice."

@@Irmarinen I always thought he said "At least I've got chicken" - he went afk to make chicken

xa-xa yes

own goals are accidents. 4th Crusade was a top ten anime betrayal of all time.

Arrogance and greed, the Romans could not bear the idea of a possible bulgarian heir to the throne

Often followed by the battlecry of 'what are you doing you fucking idiots?' Being shouted at the screen!

Haha definitely,only a few types of heavy cavalry don't have this skill such as Russian Tsar guard or Christian cavalry of Moors

Thank you sir. Welcome to the channel.

@Glenn Krenz dude I'm doing a MSc in logistics, every commander with above room temperature IQ knows not chase skirmishers with heavy units, thats how every ambush starts

@Glenn Krenz ok boomer

I understand your logistical point but please also think about the human and disciplinary side of this kind of combat. In those times maintaning a formation was hard enough, even more when under fire and requested to withstand it. Even nowadays it requires a lot of training and resilience to obey a standing defensive order whilst getting shot at.

@@andrpaulino these jackasses destroyed the roman empire I don't have sympathy

@@CrunchyNorbert im not being sympathetic im only illustrating the combat difficulty and distress of being under harassment , independently of the sides in question. Especially whilst being unable to rispond.

actually hes name was Johnny and he was vlachian

@@Mr-__-Sy False

@@0d138 actually no in all the history books he's named johnny or simply kaloyan and he really was vlachian as all the asanids were maybe he signed as john but if the history says hes name was johnny than it was johnny

@@0d138 Yes, Kaloyan was a valachian, as all the Arsanesti family was. Later on they would be assassinated by the bulgarian nobles and the bulgarians would continue to rule in their place.

@@Mr-__-Sy The origins of the dynasty, especially the ethnic background of the three Asen brothers (Teodor I Peter IV, Ivan Asen I and Kaloyan) are still a source of much controversy, debated among historians. There are three main hypothesis regarding their origins:[1] Cuman origin, as some of the names in the dynasty, including Asen, are derived from Cuman language. Groups of Cumans settled and mingled with the local population in many regions of the Balkans between the 10th and 13th centuries and founded also other successive Bulgarian dynasties (Terterids and Shishmanids).[2][3][4][5] Bulgarian origin, a view that is common among the Bulgarian historians who reckon that all native sources (from the 13th century[6]) use predominantly the terms Bulgaria, Bulgarians and Bulgarian, that tsar Kaloyan claimed provenance from the rulers of the First Bulgarian Empire.[7] Vlach origin,[8][9][10][11][12] a view supported mainly by Romanian and some foreign historians who base their claims on Byzantine sources, Western Crusade chronicles, and letters between Pope Innocent III and Kaloyan.[13][6]

Слава!

agreed

I am soooooo not suprised by this, after watching many other medieval fights between Western and Non-Western armies. The Western knights would be unbeatable on the field, then lose discipline, then act dumb and get slaughtered. Every single time.

Knights were nobilety. More by birth(arrogance) and wealth (equipment). Normans however.

@kiril marinov exactly. Norman knight was by skill. Not birth.

@@Nortrix87 Knights in east are funny as hell, Pathians and Saramatains (Persian ppl - eastern guys) invented the heavy cavalry (Cathaphracts) even some say the legend of Arthur (celtic-italic name means Bear) and his round table knights is based of a Roman name Arturius and his Sarmatian Auxilia. The Dragon is inspired from Draco Scytian and/or Dacian flag that was borrowed by Romans. Cumans, Bulgars and Vlachs are descendants (probably not linguistically) of those Scyto-Sarmatian and Daco-Thracians tribes , and they were very aware how mounted combat works, they did this for possible thousand of years and also good horses were more accessible here at a cheaper price. And anytime knights came here they treat those warriors as peasants and forget that those guys knows very well how mounted combat works and ignoring that western combat is far different from eastern combat. Too much hypocrisy from the west.

Most underrated comment!

If you ever do that, maybe you can hire me as a director :)

@@HistoryMarche if your not there the films are not being made 😉

@@dontbetrippin4575 Haha, deal!

I wanna be rich too. And I have the same idea.

Thank you for the kind words :)

Kaloyan was vlach

kaloyan was a vlach

early bulgarians were turkic people from asia, so were the cumans. learn history

Moral Story: Don't let you starts Chase Bulgarian Empire army set you Trap be killing army own but The King didn't Order Commander yourself.

I'm happy about that! There're so much interesting cultures around the world that I as a Bulgarian love and to see that someone else is interested in our's is so lovely! And about the dispute whether or not Tsar Kaloyan was a Wlach, there's probably answer. The Bulgars first settled what is to be today's Bessarabia and Wallachia, therefore Bulgarians and Romanians have so much common in their culture and history. Kaloyan was the third brother and the youngest one amongst Peter and Asen who liberated Bulgaria from Byzantine Rule (that lasted 100 years). Long story short: After the liberation of Bulgaria Asen and Peter were killed and the throne was taken from Kaloyan who just 2 years after the victory at Adrianople was killed aswell. THe Balkans are so GameOfThrone-ish... :D Here's a video about the Battle of Ongal in 680 and the creation of First Bulgarian Tsardom: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qLOaedxhrLOvc6s.html (Enable ENG Subs) And here's one veeery cool and interesting song created by this big talanted guy Ben from Ukulele Road Trips. Its about Asen, Peter and Kaloyan: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o7OCrbx3rbm3o4E.html

Thank you for watching.

Yeah it was pro strategic move to use the terrain in order to negate the superiority of the latin armour.

@@LuisAldamiz Early Bulgarians are Turkic/Tatars. They adopted "european" ideals along the lines.

Bulgarian Empire:Have Idea you need Bring some small Army bait enemy army Trigger Chase into set trap. Bulgarian Soldier: Good idea!

Feel like tourists getting conned. These guys haven’t been in the Balkan’s that long

@@zebimicio5204 turkic yes, but not tatars, the tatars appeared much later and are from a different branch of the language family

Kaloyan was vlach not bulgar!

@@dilioification Do you have an insecurity complex or something? What in my comment made you say that, what ? Why ?

@@dilioification P.s Are romanians romanised dacians or are they vlachs, cuz it seems you can't choose which one you want to support? P.s 2 Kaloyan and his family were most likely Cumans, going off of their names - Asen, Belgun and so on, not vlach. But still they titled themselves bulgarians and were "Tsar of bulgarians". But oh well, a 12 year old romanian that doesn't know jack shit about history is going to tell them what they are.

@@starhawck Although I disagree with the guy above for beeing a complete asshole , I have to remind you that the term "vlach" means "Latin speaker" so it could've been used for the romanised dacians too. In "Strategikon" (7th century) Emperor Maurice talks about a population at the north of Danube and its migrations to the south and he calls them "Romans".

@@starhawck calm down man! 😊 Kaloyan, Petru and Asan was vlachs! Deal with it!

Nai obedinenata durjava. Bat Boiko, Kircho i Ykraineca na 15 moreta i 100 blata.

Thank you sir.

@transylvanian Absolute logic. This clear minded thinking may help stop history from repeating itself. Thank you for taking the time. Greetings from a Bulgarian :)

Well fought men! I believe the lad stating there's no good or bad guys is the good guy here.

Well you cant say either side is good or bad everyone have belives and doing what is GOOD for him... there is only rulers and ambitions not good or bad

Thank you for watching.

Thank you sir.

Thank you my friend. Your opinion truly means a lot. Btw, check your email, I sent the voice over hehe

@@HistoryMarche Just did ;)!

@@hocestbellumchannel Thank you :) I was becoming hysterical: "OMG he posts comments but ignores my emails! WTF!" hahaha

@@HistoryMarche hahhaha!

Пешо...try this kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rtV8jaRizcfGYKc.html

Antioch on the meander is such a underrated battle that nobody has heard of.

@@antiochusiiithegreat7721 everyone loves to focus on defeats when it comes to great empires

Kaloyan put a revenge on Basil .

@@aleksk4151 not quite though, his largest successes were against the latins, not the byzantines

Aleksandar Kan Literally in no way but ok. Sacking Latin occupied Greek cities doesn’t = Byzantine Basil supposedly blinding Bulgarian Soldiers.

Lol, I didn't even know that's the music from the Dark Knight, haven't seen it. It's a paid license for music from Epidemic Sound, so the artist there must've done a cover or something.

That battle was won by luck.

@@silafuyang8675 like here , bulgarians were lucky that Louis was arrogant ,otherwise this battle could had another result

Its very stupid to say IF Louis wasnt arrogant we were going to lose 1st u neverknow second how many generals in the past were arrogant and lost batte bcs of it... Was it luck again in Tutrakan my friend..

@tlv11 You confuse the Bulgarian Empire with the ancestors of thraciens: spread beside the Danube river and Balkans. Today, they speak other languages (slavic, turkic, greek...) , but their blood is from thraciens.

Frate. Glumești. Despre ce vorbești ?

Yeah he was evil

@@maxtomlinson8134 history has a funny way to enact Karma

@@maxtomlinson8134 So was Basil the 2nd, Alexander above me put it in a nice way.

Hehe, that was a subtle spoiler :)

Thank you sir.

Thanks KHK001! Great to see you here.

That faliure was also blamed for the arrogance of Nicephorus I and his refusal to take the peace treaty after he had slain the 15'000 retinue (not Levy's) stationed in the Bulgarian capital and throughly sacked it, and his ignorance of ignoring the advice of all his officers and generals on how they were walking into a obvious ambush, at least then if Nicephorus I had listened, they might have gotten away from such a disaster in the nick of time.

@@arandomgreekfrombactria6302 ...your point being?

But can they really be called crusaders? Any crusader from the past would have spit on their graves.

@@ArthaxtaDaVince777 I don't know about that. At least one of the original crusaders, Robert Guiscard I believe had just led a campaign against the Byzantines only a few years before going to the Holy Land.

Well the original idea was just regime change but obviously even in recent "Iraq" history regime change is a risky business.

@@worsethanjoerogan8061 I mean he took southern Italy and and some of the Balkans... But to plunder and sack Constantinople, no real crusader would stand by that.

The pope convinced them that the Byzantine were heretics and just as bad as a regular infidel.

:)

indeed Bulgarian has Strategic easy Bait Enemy Army Trigger starts Chase into set Traps.

Why the hell would Baldwin do something that idiotic?

@@sennaka It has been rumored that it was Kaloyan's wife who was trying to seduce him but he rejected her advances so in retaliation she went to her husband and accused Baldwin of trying to rape her.

@@barbiquearea #metoo

hihi there is story with the wife,and killing of Baldwin,but not making a cup from skull ...again hihih

lol, yeah the ambush was well executed. I love battles that have a bit of trickery about them.

@@HistoryMarche Honestly it was clear from a mile away that there is gonna be an ambush. But like most other times, the knights managed to deceive themselves.

peyman mostafaei you are always more aware of it a thousand years later and after already seeing a thousand animated battles that executed perfect ambushes Back then u couldnt see the map from above U couldnt know any of the things we know Always put urself into the moment of battle to understand the genius behind it

@@affentaktik2810 You are right about knowing the things now but you have to understand the tactics used by Nomadic (Steppe) people. From different Scythian tribes, to German and later Mongolid-Turkic tribes, you can easily see that the tactics used mostly by them were hit-and-run and then the famous feign retreat. Just tell How many armies were annihilated by these tactics? How many times were these tactics used throughout history by different Nomadic people? Even the famous Arsacids (Parthians) used this tactic against Crassus in the Battle of Carrhae which by the way is related to their origins as the Arsacids were most likely Scythian or were related to them directly.

@BulgaroSlav there wasn't internet until the late 1900's and yet people were able to learn basic military tactics and tricks for hundreds and thousands of years. the problem is that they are not leader because of their talents but cause they are born leaders, they learned 3 military tactics, can make it work in almost all situations or at least try to not have a catastrophic failure. they are for the most part dumb fucks who because they had some mild successes against peasant revolt on home ground believes themselves as successors of Alexander or Cesar. And then they encounter steppe nomads whom entire military strategy is based on fighting dumb fucks like this who never learn, and because they were able to perfectionate, you have this kind of situation where an """elite""" army get annihilated by falling in an obvious trap.

Heya, thanks a lot jk kim :)

Thank you very much.

wrong

Glad you enjoyed it!

Yes over 1.90 was high

It's not a legend, his body was found. They even made an attempt to recreate his face from scull shapes.

It's not really a legend - there is a burial in Tarnovo, wearing a ring with the inscription "Kaloyan's ring", which archaeologists and historians are still arguing whether it belongs to Tsar Kaloyan or to someone else with that name (which was rather popular in those times). If we presume that the burial belongs to the tsar, then he was quite tall indeed - about 1,9 metres, as mentioned. Likewise, there are several other burials in other locations, which some people attribute to other relatives of Kaloyan - his older brothers, the tsars Petar and Asen, as well as his cousin Ivanko - with all of them supposedly being between 1,9 and 2 metres tall. If anyone decides to write a historical-fantasy story, mixing real history with mythological elements, then it would make good sense to make the early Asenids half-Giants (or at least quarter-Giant). I myself have already dabbled with such a short story set in this time period.

@@NikeBG where can I read this story? You got me interested

@@TheSamuilTerziiski It's a backstory for a game-mod character I had written some years ago - Valkadin Glog. It's nothing serious - a guy who claims to be a monster hunter in AD1200 and I even had him look somewhat like Geralt of Rivia. And, of course, I'm a complete amateur, so the style could be a lot better. But, eh... I enjoyed creating him and cramming hidden references to any legends and lore from this period I could find... :D europe1200.fandom.com/wiki/Valkadin_Glog P.S. It's good to remember that pretty much everything there comes from the mouth of Valkadin himself.

I'll definitely be covering Ottoman battles, got quite a few topics that I'm slowly preparing.

Thank you :)

Thank you very much. I'm working on Mihai part 3 right now, it should be finished in early January.

Kaloyan in reality was of vlach ethnicity. Ioniță Caloian. The proof is his empire both on north and south of Danube. Today the south of Danube is almost all slavized.

Cheers :)

Thank you sir. Yes, the earlier battle is definitely part of my plans. I wanted to do Adrianople 1205 first, because no one else has covered it. But I'll probably do the earlier one as well over the coming months.

@@HistoryMarche Great! Very much looking forward to it :-) Keep up the amazing work, and thanks as always!

Thank you very much.

And Vlachs

@@andreipop5805 No

@@podlodialgilap3490 considering Kaloyan was a Vlach

@Jotaro97 no, the Byzantine cronicles confirm that he was Vlach from the Vlach dinasty Asaneților(sorry but I don't know how to write the dinasty's name in english).

@@tiziogg6350 I know I'm a little late for the party but... You can't ignore that the main of these Byzantine sources you are talking about, namely Niketas Choniates, also mentioned that the Greek chronicles used to call the Vlachs, "Moesians". And as you probably know, the Byzantines used to refer to the people of the First Bulgarian tsardom as "Moesians". You see, it's not as simple as you make it out to be. Since the way in which the Byzantines used the term "Vlach" is rather sketchy it can be concluded that their reports should be taken with a grain of salt. Similarly, the other evidence which contradicts the theory that the Asens were Vlachs, like the fact that the Asen brothers claimed descent from the Krum dynasty, which was certainly not Vlach, also shouldn't be ignored.

Thank you very much for watching.

Thank you kindly.

Not really, it would be nonsensical for them to willingly engage in melee combat with the heavy knights(it would cause massive casualties for them), yet they did, twice, meaning the knights caught up with them. It is just that the skilled Cumans managed to break off and repeat the flight.

The Greek and Persian armies were far superior to western armies.The only advantage of the western forces was the killing machine of the knight.The Persians and the Greeks/Romans had a military tradition according to the enemy the terrain and the quality of their troops, under these factors they chose the best plan and the shock troops were only to secure the battle, the Latins should keep their heavy horsemen until the battle was in their favorable terrain, they should abandon the siege and retreat to a good terrain waiting for Kaloyan to come, if not, then the city would be in danger to besieged once again...Riding because you are strong is as stupid as it fits to wild animals.The crusaders did it in Dorryleum and they were lucky to have reserves to save their ass.The french crusaders did it in the battle of Varna, ignoring the better experienced in tactics Hungarians and losing their heads.With that kind of stupidity isn't a surprise to me that England conquered the half world in 4 centuries.Surpisingly the british were extremely careful, efficient, well studied, independent and used their armed forces to win with diplomacy and not to deplete their time and money costly forces for pride.That is why a trap is always an option, victory with full numbers!

yep that worst King their Lack Tactics and low Terrain skills But didn't Order Commander yourself Army started Chase Bulgarian small cavalry horse set traps. Good job Bulgarian Empire Strategy.

Ahh the prosperous period for Norway. It's definitely a good suggestion.

@Jotaro97 they conquered primitive tribal cultures. And, mind you, I talk about Medieval Times. Later, with the industrialisation and development of modern warfare they've built the strongest and greatest armies of the world, especially Germans.

lmfao what ? poor warriors based on 1 video ? Charlemagne destroyed the Avars and Otto the Great destroyed Hungary and forced them to change their style to settle down instead of raiding like they always do, 1 battle won doesn’t absolve 100 lost

Fuck Louis as a Bulgarian i am laughing by his arrogance and stupidity.