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That was a really epic battle thx you

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That was an Extraordinary and outstanding video. Very very VERY WELL DONE SIR!

Yeah, definitely worthy of a Sabaton song.

What you say is just an ottoman perspective of the battle. From Timurid perspective, it was just a regular commitment.

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​@@user-pc3ts8yc5bwell said. 😂😂😂😂😂

Mad respect for refusing to flee and choosing to die on the battlefield. The death of a true warrior.

yeah no blatant blunder by any of the two parties on the battlefield

This was as suspenseful as any good novel or movie. The history reported was profound. Keep thinking about Crimea and Balkans as to the current wars. One of HM's best. Brilliant.

@@13redlion13 what could have beyazid done to win? a fighting retreat?

Yeah, this was a cracker. A battle fought well by both sides, intelligently committed reserves and, as you say great intelligence and depth of thought and action.

@@13redlion13 I think there were a few mistakes, but the most notable strategic mistakes were made by Bayezid. Fighting a large army of horse archers on the defensive while in an open field is a mistake, even if it is possible to push them back with heavy cavalry or a larger numbers of archers. This is due to the attrition suffered over time and the difficulty in fighting back. Your goal should always be to funnel them or lay a trap. Burning grazing areas, which could be possible in the Anatolian climate, ahead of a cavalry heavy army is also a good strategy to force the horses to starve. Bayezid set himself into a more difficult position than he had to when he faced the Timurids in the open. It may sound cruel, but it could be that letting Ankra burn would be the right choice in buying time for a better position. Still, the leadership Bayezid showed while under pressure from traitors and superior numbers is really admirable. He also had chosen some really loyal men to lead in his army, like the Serbians, and despite the treason. Timur was the greater commander in the end, even if there were some less notable mistakes made by him too. Like not taking advantage of the advancing Serbs, not killing the enemy archers and not splitting his horse archers into teams to provide constant fire. So neither commanders were perfect, but they were quite good for that time as they likely didn't have access to as much literature as we have. Finally they were both quite lucky, which is the most important trait of a commander.

Stefan was one of the most chivalrous people in medieval history, and a true representation of what an knight honor was. But also his sister was married to Bayezid so his loyalty in this battle lays with her. After this battle she was captured by Timur and Stefan made deals to bring her back to Serbian court.

He was also member of dragon order of knights, maybe pinacle of knighthood of medieval Balkans time

Bayezid isn't blind

@@SIUUUUUsman can u even fcking read my god i reading youre comment made me like humans a little less

Nic eone

@@SIUUUUUsman I didn't say blind. Told him that his eyesight was poor in one eye.

Idiotic.i know why u say that. It was from Timur's quotes to Bayezid when he was imprisoned. Timur said Bayezid, what an irony that Allah gave power to lame like me and blind like you. Here blind doesn't mean physical, it's about Bayezid over pride, how he threatened Timur by envoys.

Feels eerily similar to the Battle of Keresztes where, in that instance, in 1596, the Sultan stayed to fight the Christian army while his Ottoman army was falling apart, and miraculously, the Christian's hastiness doomed them to where the Ottomans managed to pull a win after 3 days of bloody back & forth fighting.

Or any other site.

Yeah I agree this was an excellent one, with good graphics

Agreed this was really enjoyable to watch and listen to.

@@pannobhasa agreed. It reminds me of HM's all-part series covering the battle of Keresztes in 1596 with the Ottomans. Both sides had overall good & competent leadership, had this colossal back-and-forth over the battlefield, and amid the chaos & brutality of war, ended on a high note that displayed the utter ferocity of how each side viewed the other. Very high causalities in total, and where the Sultan fought to the bitter end to inspire the army back. One successfully did it in Kesresztes but not in Ankara.

I wonder how this would have went if the Ottomans had an additional 30k troops to even out the numbers.

@@aksmex2576 there might have been a very real chance at victory then. If the Ottomans brought more household troops and Rumelian timars they could defend against the horse archers more easily, deal with the traitorous elements without the front line breaking and close the gap created by the charge of the elephants. Beyazid might have even been able to just push the horse archers and Timur's army against the mountains negating the horse archers effectiveness and forcing timur to use the Elephants earlier than he would like. This is all speculation though Timur still could've won he was great commander. Too bad such talent was wasted on such a brutal warlord. I would like to think that the Ottoman army would've won. I just like Beyazid better, he's like an earlier version of Yavuz Selim, just more pridefull.

@@kadudeduder5103do you think the ottomans would have had conquered constantinople earlier with beyazid? do you think the they could have conquered more territories perhaps?

@@imtiazabdurrahman683 The defeat at Anakara had huge consequences. For most empires it would've been the end but the Ottomans spent the next 50 years reconquering and subjugating it's lost territories, rebuilding it's armies for Mehmed the Conqueror to capture Istanbul. Constantinople could've been conquered earlier yes. The Ottomans were starving the city by blockading it for a few years before Timur invaded. John VII the current regent even considered surrendering to end the suffering of his people like the video explained. The Ottoman empire doesn't need to spend any time consolidating any power or fighting a bloody civil war if the defeat of Ankara doesn't happen. There's no need to reconquer the beyliks or the lost land in northeren Greece and Serbia. The traitorous troops and beys probably would've been put to death consequently. Beyazid's successors were all capable generals and administrators. Mehmed Celebi, Murad II and Fatih Mehmed could've probably conquered Hungary much earlier since it was still in disarray after its defeat of Nicopolis or even conquer Rome and Italy next with no Skanderbeg or Hunyadi standing in the way. This is all just fantasy, a big if scenario though maybe the ottomans would've gotten content entered stagnation further. I believe otherwise because the earlier Sultans and administrators were much more interested in ruling in stead of living lavishly. Just compare Mehmed Celebi would is practically the savior and second founder of the empire to the son of Suleiman the Magnificent, Sari Selim a drunk buffoon.

@@kadudeduder5103 didn’t suleiman the magnificent kill his more ambitious son that wanted to explore the new world? do you think he could’ve expanded the empire slightly?

Which country is that? Tamerlane ruled a huge empire lol.

​@@djd770 Uzbekistan

Funny how that goes huh?.. As a Euro-descendant myself many celebrate Julies Caesar but he killed millions of Gauls (ancient French), Britons (ancient natives of Britain) and sought to eradicate the Druidic religion of the Britons in order to colonize their lands. On the other hand Vlad The Impaler is painted as a monster when he was just trying to defend Europe from the Ottomans and had to take extreme measures to do so. Strange creatures us humans are.

Ruthless and Harsh is like Euphemism for mass murderers ....Genghiz and Timur are like the medieval equivalent to the Austrian Painter or Stalin ....Butchered entire cities without consideration of age , or gender....but can't deny that they were extremely , probably one of the best masterminds in history of the warriorship...I bow to their martial skills

​@@EstbXCIIITbh ceasar wasnt really that bad in Britain. The romans didnt attempt to destroy the native British religions and honestly out of all roman invaders in Britain ceasar didnt really do much except ruitine war stuff he didnt conquer anything. Ceasar in gaul on the other hand is a different story 😂 its strange that so many people dont know that just during his time there gaul lost 1/3rd of its population. 1 million killed and another 1 million enslaved then ceasar by his own words slaughtered nearly half a million germans. The romans in general are just never remembered for their extreme brutality on the natives. The anceint britons apparently according to tacitus had a leader who said this to describe the romans "To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a solitude and call it peace". The romans debatabley are one of , if not the most brutal empires in European history and in my opinion are way worst than pretty much all colonial empires of the 1500-1990s but all those have bad reputations and the romans are loved. Strange isnt it.

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You got some toilet paper left on your nose

@@user-sl4hx8vs9w shush

K&G are sellouts, propaganda mongers, ad whores and cia educated stooges. Here's hoping History Marche never turns out that way. This was a grand video, like their old ones.

it was so sad , Beyezid did everythign right , but the enemy was just had too much more troops and ofc Timur strategy was very good too , he played his cards well

man i was so sad for Bayezid , he fought valiantly

He was betrayed in two fronts... but what can we say "everything is fair in love and war". the major impact here is that due to Timur constantinople fall 50 years later then expected and ottomans compaigns in Europe stopped for almost 20 years and it took 40 years for the ottomans to get back to what they where before the war.

@@majedbejaoui4285 oh yeah i forgot about that , the damn betrayers , do you think Bayezid would still lose the battle? if those squads didnt betray him? the damn horse archers were so numerous

​@AXharoth I think ultimately Timur was too good and too well equipped. Hard to see the Otomans repelling the elephant charge to break open the battle. Much respect for Bayazid. Have never liked him, but newfound respect after this video.

​@@limrsk321 Especially with This Fact: The siege of Constantinople in 1394-1402 was a long blockade of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I. Already in 1391, the rapid Ottoman conquests in the Balkans had cut off the city from its hinterland. After constructing the fortress of Anadoluhisarı to control the Bosporus strait, Bayezid tried to starve the city into submission by blockading it both by land and, less effectively, by sea. The Crusade of Nicopolis was launched to relieve the city, but it was decisively defeated by the Ottomans. In 1399, a French expeditionary force under Marshal de Boucicaut arrived, but was unable to achieve much. The situation became so dire that in December 1399 the Byzantine emperor, Manuel II Palaiologos, left the city to tour the courts of Western Europe in a desperate attempt to secure military aid. The emperor was welcomed with honours, but secured no definite pledges of support. The city was relieved when Bayezid had to confront the invasion of Timur in 1402. Bayezid's defeat in the Battle of Ankara in 1402 and the subsequent Ottoman civil war enabled the Byzantines to regain some lost territories in the Treaty of Gallipoli.

Maybe. But the interregnum and betrayal of beylik soldiers let Ottomans to see and fix the problems in administration which helped them hugely in future.

No, not really lol

​@@fairoboilawrence5287 lol yes really

@@fairoboilawrence5287 Wow, what a powerful argument! And such cogent evidence marshalled. You've convinced me! Lol.

I am curious to see their equipment . Those Serbian knights are legendary

One of the if not the greatest traitor of european history.

Please elaborate on traitor statement

@@MrGajgur Ottoman servant dog

⁠​⁠@@MrGajgurhe has none. Stefan Lazarević decided to stay on the sultan’s good side and honor his vassalage to the Ottoman throne due to his sister being the sultan’s wife. Anyone of us here would do the same for our sister. Interestingly, his sister got captured by Timur in the raids after the battle and was released without a ransom demand, due to the respect Timur had for Stefan and his knights. Stefan later proceeded to secede from the Ottomans with help from the Byzantine emperor.

Agreed, Tokhtamysh would have subdued Russians and Eastern Europeans, Bayezid would have continued with Balkans and onto North/West Europe and Timur would have invaded China and the remaining Asia.

Timur considered himself a mongol,as evidence by his writings.Let's not forget it were Turkic Uzbek tribes led by shaybani khan ozbek that fragmented and then destroyed all timurids, except babur who fled to Kabul, clearly developing deep hatred towards Uzbeks as evidence from his autobiography,which animosity lasted till his great great grandson Shah jahan who tried to invade Uzbek khanate to get revenge

I knew who was going to win but was still excited. The narration was excellent

To this day you can see the burned minarets in Sivas

Maybe that is where Shakespeare got the idea of "The Merchant of Venice".

Not all of the garrison but Armenian archers.

Timur was one of the greatest Turkic ruler in history

@@borakaraca9788 what great things did he left in your country?

, siege of kruge, varna, 2 Kosovo and many more lol

I’m waiting for selim series against memluks

my proposal is whole series about Timur

@@Goldenbowl4 He did already marj dabiq and wont probably do another

While his father was the only Ottoman sultan to die on the battlefield, all within a generation...

Because that times actually rulers where in the real battle not sitting in their palace

@@Goldenbowl4 agreed. The janissaries must have been proud to fight by Bayezid until the end.

He could have escaped with Stefan Lazarević and the Serbian Calvary. But chose not to. Stefan’s sister (Bayezid’s wife) was also captured as well.

@@MarztheStoic janesseries fight to the last man that’s why it took Timur army to capture him so long but those janisseries was loyal to him, well what a time those guys lived…

When you have man fighters like Serbs and janiqeris fighting long side you on battle field you don't need to worry about your right and left sides.

They were not christians, because nonmuslims cannot fight with ghazi army

@@agandaur88 yes they were christians

​@@agandaur88yea dude you got no clue about history 😂 yes they are Christians now and then

@@agandaur88 That is false. Otomans were well tolerant with all religions throughout their history

In fact it was the opposite... Timur was like Napoleon who had gathered a lot of islamic nations of the middle east against the ottomans ...even in the battle the timur acted as the ultimate commander of muslims.... He even got the the title ghazi ( means veteran fighting for islam )

​@@ermalarapi4397No, Timur was a mass murderer.he is a shame to Islam.

@@ermalarapi4397 Yea Timur was more like Napoleon because of his mobility. Bayezid was more like Louis XIV, the sun king, in term of wealth and organization.

@@TemplarX2timur was great strategist but Bayezid was tactician and very Mobile hence the nickname the Thunderbolt and was hasty at time and risk taker

@@Rude_Thunder most top islamic rulers are mass murderers

Very kind of you. Thanks man.

@@HistoryMarche Battle of Otlukbeli 1478 AD Ottoman Turks Revenge To ankara war Aq qoyunlu Timurids alliance Mehmet 2 khan vs uzun hasan please new videos.

Same goes for the Tokhtamysh-Timur War! The Golden Horde would have won the Battle of the Terek River had that dirty minded Tamerlane not bribed the Tartars in the army!

yea, Beyezid mentioned chasing him to India because I think he didn't want to go all the way to India, so he made him come to Anatolia.

Turning Turks against Ottoman*. Turks saw closer Timur than Ottoman.

@@hooshyarkarimi9524 He did though unfortunately. He may have even lost to the Delhi Sultanate if he didn’t use an inhumane, dirty tactic.

@@user-nv4ih6td4f Because they’re rusty pieces of junk!

Once he learned Timur was behind him he had two options: go forward and block the exit or go back all way *west* of Ankara and start again, he chose a third and very dangerous option of engaging an enemy between him and his base.

Especially since they weren't mercenaries!

Even better than I thought.

Your comment prompted me to search for the painting. I found, what I believed to be, the one you are speaking of -- a beautiful color painting showing Bayezid reclining on a bed in an ornate room -- treatment befitting a captured sultan. Then, I came upon a black and white 19th century illustration showing Bayezid in prison, which was a much less benign depiction of the event four centuries earlier. History's interpretation can be inconsistent.

@@Mike-rf5tz Ahh yes ,I was talking about the first one. Do you think Bayzid committed suicide or just died in captivity?

Same man. But you do know how his story ends right?

he said last time that the team is working on it

They're too busy sucking up to Turkish nationalists.

​​​@@tommcduck7031yeah. Saw a comment from HM 2 weeks ago that they were working on the 4th attempt WIP /Work-in-progress development video adaptation for Part 20. Had to rewrite things alongside the animation

@@darthveatay He loses a battle in north africa, that may or may not have happened. Then he serves in the Seleucid navy.

He was also considered the last mongol conquerer, though he was heavily turkified and persianised

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Glad you enjoyed it!

@@HistoryMarche Absolutely! Your content always leaves me wanting more. Looking forward to diving into more fascinating historical narratives with HistoryMarche!

Thank you very much!

Unlike Cannae this battle is between two great and experienced generals so it is more like battle of Waterloo...

Thank you so much 😀

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Since the channel owner is Serbian, he assigned imaginary missions to the Serbs. In reality, the Serbs fought only on the left flank and fled when Timurid forces prevailed. Contrary to what is shown in the video, Lazar did not visit the Ottoman ranks and prevent the defeat. This is a fabrication of the channel owner

@@Spartan_Disiplin It actually isnt. Its in Otoman sources as well and in every historical record. You can google it up. And what Lazar? Are you on mashrooms on something? Lazar Stefans father died 13 years prior.

​@@Spartan_Disiplin You litteraly pulled that put of your ass lmao.

Traitor to europe he was.

​@@0trov_ Ottoman sources do not mention that Lazarovic did anything significant other than fighting on the left wing (under the command of the Ottoman vizier) and going to Yıldırım Beyazıt offering him to escape.