The Battle of Varna, 1444: Europe's Final Anti-Ottoman Crusade

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The Battle of Varna occurred on November 10, 1444, in the vicinity of Varna, situated in eastern Bulgaria. This pivotal clash featured the Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II, despite his temporary absence from the sultanate's rule. On the opposing side were the Crusaders, commanded by King Władysław III of Poland and Hungary, with the tactical guidance of John Hunyadi overseeing the combined Christian forces. Adding to this coalition was Mircea II of Wallachia. This decisive encounter marked the culmination of the Crusade of Varna, a final desperate endeavor aimed at impeding the Ottoman's further expansion into the Balkans.
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@HoH 8 ай бұрын

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@danielsantiagourtado3430 8 ай бұрын

Please man! Consider doing a video on the battle of zenta, eugene of savoy's masterpiece and one of the worst defeats ever for the ottomans

@HoH 8 ай бұрын

@@danielsantiagourtado3430 I already created this on my good friend HistoryMarche's channel!

@danielsantiagourtado3430 8 ай бұрын

@@HoH then how about the Siege of Vienna in 1683?

@RandomGuy-df1oy 8 ай бұрын

What is the source for the numbers? They differ alot from modern historian's. Ottomans didn't have a numerical advantage

@beepboop204 8 ай бұрын

i know some have argued that WW1 saw some weirdness in terms of some people launching their own attempted Anti-Ottoman Crusade! theres an interesting article titled " The Crusader-Era Knights Who Volunteered to Fight World War I"

@SireJaxs 8 ай бұрын

For any of the EUIV nerds here, we all know in the game that it starts a day after the battle of Varna (November 11, 1444)

@mchunter_ 6 ай бұрын

It will be interesting and challenging if the game started on the day of varna crusade

@nomooon 8 ай бұрын

so i see the eastern european knights have the "french knight reckless syndrome" as well, totally deserved to lose.

@conquistador-7526 8 ай бұрын

All for one arrogant hubris filled idiot named Ladislav, he cost the lives of thousands of brave Christian warriors and the battle, dumbass deserved his bloody end; his men should've mutinied and put his ambitious ass in chains.

@GM-os6fo 8 ай бұрын

You cant wear and fight in heavy armor forever,especially in the balcan They had to act quickly U never know,may they were close to kill the sultan And That was They best chance for winning

@loslobos786 8 ай бұрын

Never underestimate a Christian knights ability to snatch defeat from the Jaws of victory with a suicidal heavy cavalry charge.

@lawrencelow949 8 ай бұрын

I see Richard III has emulated this action perfectly 😅😅😅

@loslobos786 8 ай бұрын

@@lawrencelow949 as have many others.

@verde629 7 ай бұрын

Hey but it’s cool, lol

@resiliencewithin 7 ай бұрын

Catholics?

@Asterix958 7 ай бұрын

It is kind of true, however advantage of armor in first phase of the battle nullified due to wearers being tired and armor damaged as battle prolonged. This isn't first battle that Crusaders started battle well and gradually defeated as battle prolonged.

@baybarshan2500 8 ай бұрын

08:10 Mehmed forcied his father Murad to take up arms against invading crusaders after Murad had in fact retired from worldly matters and wanted to retreat to religious matters, with a lettrer containing only 1 sentence. " If you are the Ottoman Sultan, come and lead your armies against infidels, If I am the Ottoman Sultan I order you to come and lead your armies against infidels"

@patrikrendulic3223 7 ай бұрын

Is that confirmed though? I mean he was 12...

@meminslawmalinowski3956 6 ай бұрын

@@patrikrendulic3223No. Mehmet II does not have such a letter. But after his father left the throne to him, pashas underestimated him and Mehmet was forced to leave the throne to his father even though he did not want to.

@pandaren_brewmaster Күн бұрын

@@patrikrendulic3223 No, the quote is in a book that was written around 50-100 years after the event. So it might be real or fabricated.

@Artur_M. 8 ай бұрын

In Poland, the interregnum following the death of King Ladislaus, or rather Władysław III (posthumously known as Warneńczyk, meaning 'of Varna') dragged on until 1447, partially due to rumours claiming that the King actually survived but was hiding in a self-imposed exile, blaming himself not just for the lost of the battle, but for breaking of the truce in the first place.

@randomname5338 8 ай бұрын

I'm from Varna we've named two overlapped boulevards Wladislav Varnenchik and Janus Hunqdi , we still remember

@00700A 8 ай бұрын

Yes and my favorites theory of all time that Ladislaus was father of Christopher Colombus XD

@elmascapo6588 8 ай бұрын

@@00700Afuck it, it's canon. That theory is way to funny

@Goldberg1234 8 ай бұрын

@@randomname5338We, Poles like and respect Bulgaria and Bulgarians. I was many time in Bulgaria and I falled in love to your country. Very hospitable people and nice cities like Burgaz, Varna, Sofia, Veliko Trnovo, Ruse.

@asherwoodrow7471 6 ай бұрын

@@randomname5338 man why cant i live in poland where street names are cool and not shit like "cornville" or "mingus"

@brokenbridge6316 8 ай бұрын

The battles the Ottoman's and the Christians fought will always be exceedingly interesting. Great video.

@toinfinitybeyond437 8 ай бұрын

Yes those satanic scumbags came to destroy Christianity.... now there empire is dust! And turkey is a joke

@nvelsen1975 5 ай бұрын

You meant "The Ottomans and the catholics", because a lot of Christians were quite happy that the Ottomans were slapping down the agressive, downright genocidal catholic powers. The Netherlands was allied with the Ottomans for a long time because the Ottomans were dealing with the genocidal Habsburgs. And every town the Ottomans sacked, was troops pulled away from catholics brutally exterminating Christians in western Europe.

@thebigflop3118 3 ай бұрын

@@nvelsen1975weirdly enough genocidal and ottomans are a borderline synonym 😂😂

@nvelsen1975 3 ай бұрын

@@thebigflop3118 Well, all depends if you're a papist or a christian eh?

@Easternromanfan 16 күн бұрын

@nvelsen1975 Eastern orthodox Christians would've preferred catholic rule to Islamic one. Atleast the catholics didn't take children to become slave soldiers for the sultan. They also assisted the crusaders showing their preference

@notthefbi7932 8 ай бұрын

It's always interesting to realize how long the Ottoman empire actually lasted - 1299 to 1924 🤯

@steffanyschwartz7801 8 ай бұрын

The Ottoman Empire coexisted with the 4 Mongol Khaganates, Timur, the Mughals, the United Habsburg Empire, Warner Bros, and the Safavids.

@sharkyPCH 8 ай бұрын

After the Roman Empire..the Ottoman lasted the longest in Europe..but their cultural impact is next to zero

@BoxStudioExecutive 8 ай бұрын

@@sharkyPCH cultural impact is zero, huh? Guess you’ll be giving up coffee tomorrow, then, otherwise you are a sad liar.

@markquintonii 8 ай бұрын

@@sharkyPCHdepends on which part Europe you are referring to. Eastern and Southern Europe, the cultural impact was pretty huge. Prior to Napoleon the ottomans and the French were pretty close political allies.

@toinfinitybeyond437 8 ай бұрын

@@sharkyPCHbecause they were savages and slavers

@tudorm6838 8 ай бұрын

In 1445 a Burgundian fleet led by Wallerand de Wavrin carried out a raid on the Danube, from Braila to Vidin, believing in the rumors that the Hungarian king had survived and could be saved. Wavrin cooperates with Wallachian prince Vlad Dracul (the father of Vlad the Impaler) and together they manage to conquer the Giurgiu fortress.

@mmaa5109 8 ай бұрын

Chivalry drove crusaders to break the treaty! That's some chivalry 😂

@keeshans5768 8 ай бұрын

How honorable!

@nohandler1493 26 күн бұрын

CRUSADERS DOOM MUSLIM FORCES

@jahanzebnazir177 8 ай бұрын

Those two jannisaries really had nerves of steele one stopping Sultan Murad ll from fleeing and the other one cutting and presenting the head to the Sultan, best troops of the Ottomans for a reason.

@C63V8 6 ай бұрын

Sultan never attempted fleeing. You are hearing the Euro version of this event

@blaccbeard 8 ай бұрын

this is lowkey becoming my favorite history channel

@ayanlekhadar8278 7 ай бұрын

In the Muslim sources the number of ottoman casualties were not that high how could an army of 60 thousand soldiers lost half of his number and still be victorious while the number of Christians were 80 thousand with 15 thousand casualties could lost major of his officers and the battle it it doesn't make any sense

@JorjMusk 8 ай бұрын

Murad never think about retreating

@emrenuriyev9132 2 ай бұрын

House of history, did you get your sole sources from crusaders? There is no way Murad was able to levy 60k in short time(considering Ottomans were at peace) where Venetians blocked the straits to halt reinforcements. Not to mention main Ottoman forces were fighting with Karaman beylik. Modern estimates suggest that Ottomans were roughly 30k while Crusaders 20k. The fact that you suggest Ottomans had 30k casualties is nonsense.

@mertakturk6489 6 ай бұрын

9:14 Sultan Murad's men were exhausted too due to crushing the rebels. And crusaders were first to built an army and marched on Ottoman's territory. They were more prepared than Ottomans and caught in bad terrain. Cmon 😄. Apart from that both side put astonishing effort to fight each other i can respect that. But in the end Ottomans were 1 and crusaders were many. Soo do the math.

@CptSlow89 8 ай бұрын

Why would they charge Ottomans of they were hugely outnumbered? Don't get it?

@Ian-yf7uf 8 ай бұрын

That's how the crusades went since the first crusade. In the first crusade the crusaders were always outnumbered and under supplied and they usually won with a last minute cavalry charge. It was very effective in the first crusade. Also, you'd rather go out fighting rather than submit to enslavement or capture.

@ziyadibnsalih 8 ай бұрын

In reality, crusaders had 40 000 against 50-60 000 ottomans, however the Crusader heavy cavalry was always far superior in quality to their Muslim counterparts in all crusades.

@emrealn3786 8 ай бұрын

Because these numbers a lie 😂 imagine 10 eastern european countries mustering only about half the size of Ottoman army who hardly controlled the half of anatolia and balkans. Every battle against the Ottomans is a Termopylea when you take euro sources as referance.

@Ian-yf7uf 8 ай бұрын

@@emrealn3786 there's no vast conspiracy, the ottoman's strength was in mass conscription and Europeans fielded smaller armies.

@elmascapo6588 8 ай бұрын

@@emrealn3786that's the point, the army came from 10 diferent states that had been at constant war with each other Not to mention the heavy reliance the turks had in conscription

@sofianedjafer5409 8 ай бұрын

he is talking like the ottomans are not brave or what

@emrealn3786 8 ай бұрын

Right!! definitly one sided!

@ryanvouche254 8 ай бұрын

??? What because he mentioned that Murad got frightened? I don’t care who you are seeing hundreds or thousands of men wrapped in steel armour forming up to charge you would scare you lol I guarantee ottoman officers were having to keep their soldiers in line.

@ryanvouche254 8 ай бұрын

Please put a time stamp where he said that.

@ryanvouche254 8 ай бұрын

@@emrealn3786not everything has to be unbiased if someone wants to make a pro Christian/ pro European video then too bad for you. Go find another channel.

@imeantherearethedarktownsy5210 8 ай бұрын

Could you please make a video on one of Nader Shah's battles? There are clear sources on them, and he's an incredibly underrated military genius with some really interesting huge setpiece battles (damghan, yeghevard, karnal, Kirkuk are all incredible battles)

@peterbalogh8138 7 ай бұрын

The Jagellonian kings did not bring luck to Hungary - Wladisla III died in the Battle of Varna in 1444, Lajos/Luis II in the battle of Mohacs in 1526, leaving Hungary in utter chaos afterwards.

@KHK001 8 ай бұрын

Amazing work HOH! love Ottomans wars!

@hamzanejjar1991 8 ай бұрын

Kind of disappointed to see that you’re mentioning that sultan Murad was going to run away from battle, and that he was terrified at the last charge of the crusaders. Only crusader’s sources mention that, as if they were near him. In my opinion they just wanted to shame him. But if you see the sultan’s actions nothing indicates that he was a coward. Also the 30 thousand casualties is frankly unbelievable, especially if you know that most casualties happen during routing

@darklysm8345 8 ай бұрын

ok, you are not objective

@user-cg2tw8pw7j 8 ай бұрын

@@darklysm8345No, he took Western European sources because of the lies. The Romans, Persians, Chinese, and Arabs were truthful.

@ahmeda6591 8 ай бұрын

Most if the western history Channels in KZfaq like this , the defeat would always be because Muslims outnumbered them one thousand to one , but the Europeans despite their defeat managed to kill two hundred thousands from the enemy, lol

@emrealn3786 8 ай бұрын

@@darklysm8345he's not being objective just because he doesn't want to believe one sided, most-probably-fake stories? History can't be corrupted just because you, or others want to hear some fairy tales.

@julianspaghi4592 8 ай бұрын

30 thousand casualties could also be for example 5000 deaths on battle, another 5000 died because of their wounds (also plague, was rampant) + another 20000 soldiers wounded and lived, though i agree we should take those numbers with a cup of salt....

@ElBandito 8 ай бұрын

8:14 You've done fucked up, Genoa!

@nomooon 8 ай бұрын

these are medieval banksters, they'd sell their mothers for the right price.

@davidwallace3871 8 ай бұрын

This channel keeps getting better and better …

@DaliborPerkovic-sw8mh 7 ай бұрын

One mistake in this video. Before 1463, Bosnia was a Catholic - not Orthodox christian Kingdom.

@Vekhh 8 ай бұрын

Our only king that died in the battle

@emrealn3786 8 ай бұрын

fuck and find out 🤷

@danielsantiagourtado3430 8 ай бұрын

Another day another video from this amazing channel! I'd like to take a moment to thank you for the videos you produce. Thanks and take care.

@IronWarrior86 8 ай бұрын

Interesting, though i'm not sure i trust the casualty figures. I think that of the losers are being downplayed while the opposite is done for the victors.

@emrealn3786 8 ай бұрын

Nah, Ottoman loses was around 20k, while crusaders' was 15k.

@ryanvouche254 8 ай бұрын

Those figures are always debated but the ottomans had a lot of expendable conscripts aka the azaps that they put in the front lines so it’s possible.

@aliosman0 8 ай бұрын

What are the sources of the death tolls? Hunyadi’s notes..?

@majedbejaoui4285 Ай бұрын

lmao 30000 any country at that time with this amount of loss will be crippled or dissolved which wasn't the case for the ottoman empire because they conquered constantinople less then 10 years later.

@Easternromanfan 16 күн бұрын

@@majedbejaoui4285Not at all. At Kosovo they lost a massive army but could still expand rapidly under Bayazid afterwards. Many Islamic warriors flocked to them to commit to Jihad, and they had a fairly large population

@erolbirbeyaktar 6 ай бұрын

the casualities must be wrong..ottoman side lost 15/20 thousand the crusaders lost 20/25 THOUSANDS..

@elijahbrown9738 8 ай бұрын

Just a comment to help the channel grow. Your work is top tier.

@mohammedsaysrashid3587 8 ай бұрын

Another wonderful and informative video shared by the (House of History) channel....thank you for sharing

@robbabcock_ 8 ай бұрын

Awesome presentation!⚔🔥🙌

@stoutheart 8 ай бұрын

murad the second, marshal of many wars "terrified" ? ottomans have 60k soldiers? in that era? after facing crusaders battle after battle? losing half of their armies at each one? i was enjoying your content for a while but now on i have doubts. not good bro. smells biased

@elmascapo6588 8 ай бұрын

I would be that surprised that he was terrified, varna was the closest that he ever got to being desvelar defeated, (besided the debacle at Kruje) Also, the turks realidad very heavely on conscriptipn, it's not really a surprise they got big armies

@julianspaghi4592 8 ай бұрын

@@elmascapo6588 i agree that there are some fishy things in here, however i would attribute this more to ignorance than malice. first the numbers MUST have been lower, but i don't doubt there were more ottomans than crusaders ( based mostly on the tactics employed), maybe 35k crusaders vs 50k ottomans is reasonable.... then you have the losses, THERE IS NO WAY THE OTTOMANS LOST 30K MEN IN BATTLE AND WON, simply put those losses reflect an army breaking and being massacred. however there is a possibility that for example in those 30k, there is 7000 dead in fight, another 7000 dead of their wound or the plague, and then some 10k who were wounded but recovered.

@ryanvouche254 8 ай бұрын

Did you watch the video? Before the break in the fighting the Christian forces were winning he definitely could have been nervous and I don’t care who you are if you see hundreds or thousands of men wrapped in steel armour forming up to charge you with lances you are going to be frightened. I guarantee ottoman officers were keeping their men from fleeing.

@ryanvouche254 8 ай бұрын

Not everything has to be unbiased.

@ryanvouche254 8 ай бұрын

@@elmascapo6588I don’t care who you are seeing hundreds or thousands of men in armour forming up to charge you would scare you.

@themosticonicscenesinmovie8737 8 ай бұрын

Great video as always. Could you please make video about the biggest battle of XVII century? It was the battle of Berestechko

@HoH 8 ай бұрын

Great suggestion, thanks!

@HoH 8 ай бұрын

Hey, I've been reading about this but have been unable to find any books and academic sources/articles in English. Any suggestions?

@themosticonicscenesinmovie8737 8 ай бұрын

@@HoH Can't find anything relable. All I can say is that battle was never covered on any significant channel.

@CIABACKWARDYAKUZA 8 ай бұрын

@@HoH 40 K CRUSADERS DEATH NOT 15 K AND TURKS 5K STOP LİEİNG BATTLE OF VARNA REAL TURKİSH VİCTORY AND BİG CASUALTİES FOR EUROPEANS NOT TURKS.

@Deus-Vult_Against_the_bots 8 ай бұрын

Then the day after that, my favourite game begins

@Aerangrad 8 ай бұрын

Yeah surely the Ottoman Sultan that seen many battles terrified by the charge of stupid knights directly at his Jannisary corps and gettin surrounded like he intended at the first place. Ottoman Sultans were not some palace boys with no experiance of battle. They were field commanders that lead armies and trained accordingly for some years to go. Cut your bias.

@GM-os6fo 8 ай бұрын

Sultan was pussy Never ever left he's tent While the crusader king was a fighter

@Spartan_Disiplin 8 ай бұрын

@@GM-os6fo Real commanders dont fight at the front and risk disintegrating their army. Command army from high,fortified posion was most reliable method since Romans

@Easternromanfan 16 күн бұрын

Murad wanting to flee is mentioned in ottoman sources as well

@mousben6427 8 ай бұрын

Sultan murad tried to flee ? you need to review this info Also, the numbers to be checked And finally, the causalities ! All to be reviewed

@Asterix958 7 ай бұрын

Casualties for Ottomans is wrong, Ottoman casualties was around 5-10k. However, Sultan Murad thinking to abandon battlefield is documented in Ottoman sources.

@gokalpmetininpapyonlusu5810 7 ай бұрын

They try to find a consolation for European forces. Total nonsense.

@Asterix958 7 ай бұрын

@@gokalpmetininpapyonlusu5810There is no need for consolation, both Ottomans and European sources attested that Ottoman army was losing the battle until Hungarian King incautiously charged headquarters of Murat II. Why Ottomans almost lost the battle against smaller army would be good question. Main reason is better command. Jan Hunyadi fought against Ottomans and he developed a lot of tactics to counter Ottoman armies. Also Ottoman state officials were divided due to factionalism (Şehabeddin Pasha intensely opposes Grand Vizier Çandarlı Halil Pasha at that time). Ottoman army greatly demoralized due to this factionalism, even troops of Murat II scattered after short time of engaging with Crusader army. Killing King of Hungaria and exhibiting of King's head caused the morale of the Hungarians to collapse and the morale of the Ottomans to recover.

@gokalpmetininpapyonlusu5810 7 ай бұрын

@@Asterix958 Everybody knows that Varna was a milestone in Ottoman existence and was not an easy war. The problem is one-sided narrative. Why don't mention about Timurtas and Yayabasi Koca Hizir. Why they don't mention about the previous pact and deliberate attacks of Cesarini? Why they don't mention about Janos hunyadi and his 5.000 soldiers flee? If they had Yayabasi Koca Hizir we would see his statues around. Ladislas or Wladislav and Janos has streets named after them in Bulgaria although they lost the war.Even Ladislas is a reason why Hungary and Poland union/kingdom collapsed. They had different kings, Polish throne had no king for the net three years. The only thing I want unbiased narrative which is impossible to get from corrupt westerners.

@Asterix958 7 ай бұрын

@@gokalpmetininpapyonlusu5810 Yes, great Ottoman commanders and heroic Ottoman soldiers should have been mentioned. Video mostly uses European sources. They should look at Ottoman sources. too.

@hanifitasova519 8 ай бұрын

Superb vid sir!!!!

@byzulescku 8 ай бұрын

Mircea was the older brother of Vlad the Impaler

@charlesjohnson6777 8 ай бұрын

Awesome video 😊

@EgeGrt Ай бұрын

Ottomans outnumbered crusaders and gave 30K casualties? A tired empire which had a civil war and signed 10 years peace cant outnumber a crusade army. Also 30K casualty is nonsense. Many sources says that Ottomans had nearly 35-40K in battlefield and Crusaders are not less than Ottomans. And except small army of Hunyadi managed to take with him, all Crusader army was slaughtered or captured. Turkish sources claims the casualty as around 10K. Also Murat was very successful commander who strengthened his empire after civil war. He won many wars. I don't believe he would want to escape from battlefield . Especially against a crusader army.

@History_Teller1250 8 ай бұрын

A common misconception is that the Battle of Varna was the last attempt by the christians to save Constantinople. The last attempt was in reality the Second Battle of Kosovo 4 years after Varna...

@lyanoka362 8 ай бұрын

Yes, there was a great two days blattle. Hunyadi almost won, but the wlachian cavalry changed a side at the crucial moment of the battle... 7 thousands of riders left the christian forces. After the battle, the Sultan was not merciful and had them all killed: he did not trust traitors. He sent the traitors' headgear back to Wallachia on carts.

@ks-qu4kj 7 ай бұрын

i think it was said to be the last Crusade, not last battle against the Ottomans

@History_Teller1250 7 ай бұрын

@@ks-qu4kj People often say it was the last attempt to save Constantinople while in reality, it wasn't...

@ks-qu4kj 7 ай бұрын

@@History_Teller1250 but it wasnt an attempt to save constantinople, it was an attempt by local kings to remove the ottoman threat that was facing their lands

@warren279 8 ай бұрын

Nice video! What was the music playing during the ad?

@ejdermengov 27 күн бұрын

what numerical disadvantage most of the european sources are clear that was an equal battle in manner of numbers ! Do not try to make your loss look simple and unimportant!

@MistaP2024 6 ай бұрын

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

@rickjames18 8 ай бұрын

Wow, way to completely throw a battle away all for "glory". I can only imagine what would have been if the crusaders listened to eachother for once.

@hassaanalisiddiqui3827 8 ай бұрын

A video on the siege of Vienna 1529

@educatemeans3688 8 ай бұрын

How did you make it these videos? Like how you found these contents.. Can you please guide me??

@nicbahtin4774 8 ай бұрын

omg like previously the crusade failed cause of idiotic reckless charge. Hunyadi was holding everything together until that idiot turned on Leroy Jenkins mod on.

@RandomGuy-df1oy 8 ай бұрын

up to 30k losses? lol their army was not even 30k

@radec5166 8 ай бұрын

were 60k

@RandomGuy-df1oy 8 ай бұрын

@@radec5166 definetly not, search for modern historians

@ziyadibnsalih 8 ай бұрын

The Christians had around 40 000 and the Ottomans had 50-60 000. Regardless of this, they certainly didn’t loose over half their army, that’s nonsensical.

@elmascapo6588 8 ай бұрын

@@ziyadibnsalihthey probably did, considering how unusually bloody the first part of the battle was

@julianspaghi4592 8 ай бұрын

@@elmascapo6588 no, not posible to lose half your army in the strugle and simply regroup, i agree those numbers don't make sense, as most losses would happen during routes, however there is a posibility that for example in those 30k, there is 7000 dead in fight, another 7000 dead of their wound or the plague, and then some 10k who were wounded but recovered. THAT would be posible, 30k dead on a strugle, then retreat, regroup, and then hold the line against an invigorated crusader charge? WITH HALF YOUR NUMBERS? no way

@joshuaalay2295 8 ай бұрын

Great video good sir

@ufukdmt 7 ай бұрын

High quality video, congratulations and thanks for the objectively representation. After this battle, Murat II. said: "May Allah never again grant such a victory!" ...`cause of the hard fought, high casualties.

@mbathroom1 8 ай бұрын

so now i know what this battle that kicks off eu4 is about

@ipsiz1929 22 күн бұрын

My ancestors had their skills in defeating many Europeans alone. How do we look at them in the face because of our state today? I wish I was an ottoman raider at that time.

@GM-os6fo 8 ай бұрын

On the map Croatia should get the same colour as Hungary They were in personal union

@DSS-jj2cw 8 ай бұрын

Do a video of the Battle of Fallen Timbers please.

@mgm6076 8 ай бұрын

bad leadership just like today... we europeans never learn!

@nomooon 8 ай бұрын

popular voting tend to produce some very dumb leaders, just look at the current American administration

@conquistador-7526 8 ай бұрын

Hunyadi was a great leader, it was that ambitious moron Ladislav that cost the battle for Christendom.

@user-cg2tw8pw7j 8 ай бұрын

@@conquistador-7526He ruled a number of European countries in the Balkans, Hungary, and Poland. There is no excuse for defeat

@ElBandito 8 ай бұрын

Call me paranoid, but it seems the crusaders' leaders wanted to be trapped near Varna to have the troops fight with all their might.

@IWS107 8 ай бұрын

Have you thought about doing a video series on The Teutonic Order? (The Origin of Prussia...)

@azamalikhan4845 2 ай бұрын

Brother your aftermath of casualties and Wikipedia's aftermath of casualties varies alot Please post true stats of battles

@iamleoooo 6 ай бұрын

4:25 just a small correction, you write the arabic from left to write where it supposed to be written right to left. Overall, goood video. I've been looking for a good video explaining the battle of Varna

@melihkarakas4522 4 ай бұрын

Mehmed 2 never said those at 8:37. Even if he did, he was 12 at that time so that image is misleading.

@gelindark 8 ай бұрын

My first premiere, this is exciting

@Ghostrex101 8 ай бұрын

Karaman were not an emirate but a beylik.

@ryanjean-baptistethechampi1161 8 ай бұрын

finally somthing about a war other than pussia!!

@JGreen1 8 ай бұрын

One slight correction, although you seemed.to.have spelt ghazi correctly you had the Arabic letters going left to right when it should be right to left 👍🏻

@HoH 8 ай бұрын

Yes, you are right!

@beachboy0505 8 ай бұрын

Excellent video The Genoese transported the Ottoman Army

@Ghostrex101 8 ай бұрын

I think it was the Venetians actually.

@rikisugi8140 2 ай бұрын

how about nine years war? that part of history is fascinating, between louis xiv' france and holy alliance

@pcongre 8 ай бұрын

04:15 font issue there with the Arabic script ^^

@lollllfol 8 ай бұрын

I would disagree that this was the last anti ottoman crusade, since you mentioned belgrade in this very video - speaking of which will you make a video aboutbthe siege of belgrade in 1456

@LORDMEHMOODPASHA 7 ай бұрын

The siege of Belgrade doesn't count as a crusade, a crusade would be defined as various Christian states coming together to assemble a coalition army in the name of christ via the catholic church to go on the offensive against another religion or non-Catholic Christian denomination (heretic). Belgrade was a defensive battle with no relief army involved, that and major historians agree that varna was the crusade, afterwards future anti-ottoman would be named "Holy Leagues".

@IbrahimStanikzai 7 ай бұрын

16:33 well this is debatable i didn't think ottomans suffer that casualties

@gokalpmetininpapyonlusu5810 7 ай бұрын

They put one zero too much at the end. 3.000 is more likely than 30.000

@lyanoka362 8 ай бұрын

Venetian fleet transported the sultan's army, not the genevian.

@tudorm6838 8 ай бұрын

After 1444, Ottoman operations were moved to Wallachia and Moldavia and there they faced Vlad the Impaler and Stephen the Great. The King of Hungary will support Stephen the Great but will not offer much help to Vlad the Impaler.

@gelindark 8 ай бұрын

Let's go!

@mehmetfatihcetin5932 8 ай бұрын

As far as i know 1448 second kosova was another crusade

@alannolan5126 8 ай бұрын

Can u do the History of the Empire of Brazil?

@BulanGoldstein 6 ай бұрын

This channel tries to be unbiased but ended being biased. Why the hell Crusader army was exhausted while they walked less than Ottoman army? How do you know what Sultan thought while even his closest servants couldn't know? And Ladislas and his knight couldn't even pass the first line, and was killed. Ottoman army headquarters were like movable fortresses, you can't pass them. No bullshit heroic lies please.

@WhiteFalcon_EA 7 ай бұрын

I really dislike AI art usage on historical videos. Those presentation are looking like high fantasy setting. Especially Ottomans are looking like Bedouins.

@stilianjordanov2952 8 ай бұрын

Hey, House of History, will you make a video about the Fall of Constantinople of 1453?

@odenat3701 8 ай бұрын

Oh yes, he probably would tell Mehmet II was shaking with fear while the city is conquered and one million turkish attacked to the city and 300.000 of them are dead lol.

@stilianjordanov2952 8 ай бұрын

@@odenat3701 When the 1453 Siege of Constantinople began, Sultan Mehmet II led an army of 80-200,000 men, while the garrison of the Byzantine capital, led by Constantine XI Palaiologos, numbered around 7-9,000 men. The siege lasted for six weeks, until the capital of the once powerful Byzantine Empire fell on May 29th 1453 to the Ottomans.

@CIABACKWARDYAKUZA 8 ай бұрын

@@stilianjordanov2952 not soldiers only he is greek civilians

@ryanvouche254 8 ай бұрын

@@odenat3701man he really upset you with this video hey lol

@odenat3701 8 ай бұрын

@@ryanvouche254 man, i really upset you with my comment hey lol ?

@AliSyed711 28 күн бұрын

Rewatched this recently and I’m still extremely disappointed in this.

@odalv316 6 ай бұрын

Do Bulgarian medieval history.

@fatihsahin1305 8 ай бұрын

5:54 it should be Karamanid Beylik not emirate

@Raphael-pt7rx 8 ай бұрын

1444 eu4 music intensifies

@user-rp7jc5vu2e 4 ай бұрын

8:40 is wrong.there is no source.

@00700A 8 ай бұрын

Our first winer of Darwin award

@doubleheadeagle4008 6 ай бұрын

You forget the Holy League.

@pib2008 8 ай бұрын

Thanks alot for portraying this puzzle piece of the downfall of the Christian East. Overall connections and minute details are given which satisfies both the mind and the desire for thrill. - Oh no, one more time again, the knights went wild meglecting discipline and caused severe (from one point of view) political damage.

@othmanechakir5691 8 ай бұрын

Just a correction! "GHAZI" is not an Islamic term or anything, its an Arabic word that means "Conqueror".

@gokalpmetininpapyonlusu5810 7 ай бұрын

You have to check your information. Ghazi comes from Ghaza, no relation to conquer (feth/fath)

@othmanechakir5691 7 ай бұрын

Fath/feth means "openning" and that is Islamic term if like, because that term is mentionned in Surat Al-fath in the holy curan. But "Gazi" comes from "Gazwa" wich litterly means to conquer.

@dogukanyel1391 2 күн бұрын

I think main reason for Ottomans became so sucsesfull for forging an empire they have too much skllful emperors from Osman Beg to Suleyman the magnificent every emperor they have were very skillful general and emperor. İf dosent count the romans This is very rare

@JGreen1 8 ай бұрын

Ladislas was abit of a Lad for sure....

@mehmetcaglarozgur7679 7 ай бұрын

So you say, this is a crusade backed by the Pope and led by the Polish-Hungarian king. Also consisted of other Europians. Wallachians, Bohemians etc...And their goal was to push the Ottomans to Asia. Then you give us a number of 20000 crusaders. Either you dont know maths or the crusaders. Do you really believe in that 20000 army story?

@davidhughes8357 8 ай бұрын

Your work and presentation is always the best. I appreciate your efforts immensely. Thank you House of History!!

@omerali4445 8 ай бұрын

You want to change Muslim history eh

@shaifunnessa7816 8 ай бұрын

Maratha empire Shivaji history please make video

@ersanshine 8 ай бұрын

Its not true , the europe army having big army because more than 3 nation vs only ottoman empire

@MAGNATEO 6 ай бұрын

Lol would Romania Lithuania and Spain had more army than Spain while attacking i don't think so

@chungus1219 4 ай бұрын

Murad 🤓 Ladislao 🗿

@cracoviasvault1009 8 ай бұрын

Ahhh the Black Army, so overpowered that the goverment disbanded them by hunting every soldier down. Hope to see a series about the Hungarian military revolution. 🔥

@user-cg2tw8pw7j 8 ай бұрын

You mean mercenaries?

@user-dz4pb2ll3k 6 ай бұрын

didn't the Black Army get wiped out in 2 hours during the Battle of Mohacs?

@exharkhun5605 8 ай бұрын

I blame crowns. The heavy gold compresses the neck vertebrae which lead to mental afflictions like "looking for glory", a disease that has killed more people than the black death and religion combined.