Battle of Brenta, 899 - Scourge of Europe

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🚩 "Deliver us, O Lord, from the arrows of the Hungarians" - A hymn from Modena, Italy c.900 AD. Brenta was one of the earliest battles of the Magyar invasions of Europe. Between 860 and 970, the Magyars were the scourge of Europe. They devastated and pillaged a wide swath of territory, from Bremen in the north, to Otranto in the south, and Orleans in the west, with some raiding expeditions reaching over the Pyrenees Mountains into Iberia.

📢 Narrated by David McCallion

🎼 Music:
EpidemicSound
Filmstro
Round drums - Kevin MacLeod

📚 Sources:
The Complete Works of Luidprand of Cremona. Transl by Paolo Squatriti. The Catholic University of America Press, Washington D.C., 2007
Reuter, Timothy. Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800–1056. (1991)
Balasz, György, and Karoly Szelényi. The Magyars: The Birth of a European Nation (1989)
Bóna, István. The Hungarians and Europe in the 9th-10th centuries (2000)

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🚩 "Deliver us, O Lord, from the arrows of the Hungarians" - A hymn from Modena, Italy c.900 AD. Brenta was one of the earliest battles of the Magyar invasions of Europe. Between 860 and 970, the Magyars were the scourge of Europe. They devastated and pillaged a wide swath of territory, from Bremen in the north, to Otranto in the south, and Orleans in the west, with some raiding expeditions reaching over the Pyrenees Mountains into Iberia.

HistoryMarche

>Horse Archers show up
>Europeans act Superior
>Horse Archers Feign Defeat
>Europeans pursue
>Horse Archers surprise and decimate the Europeans
>Repeat like Clockwork

Predator

"yo, wtf" Best alert cry ever.

lukas

Day 5 of asking HistoryMarche to finish 2nd Punic war series

CyborgDoge

this is why horse archers are so annoying in rome total war

Moon-liki

Magyar's were the Huns of their day. But less well-known. Great video.

brokenbridge

Italians: Stupid enough to face Horse Archers in an open field.

Magyars: Stupid enough to face Venetians at sea.

Lesson: Never underestimate your enemy.

TreiberSeptim

The conquest proper of Hungary is dated at the end of the ninth century, in 896, when the seven Hungarian tribes (Nyék, Megyer, Kirt Gyarmat, Jenó, Tarján, Kér, and Keszi) and the three Kabar tribes, led by Prince Árpád, gradually filled up the Carpathian basin, except for the zones of beechwood and the coniferous forests. The "conquering Hun garians" are equivalent to the upper circle of the people (with rich furniture); some of them spoke two languages: Onogur-Turk and Ugrian-Hungarian.

AltaicGigachad

Ah the Magyars, the Pay-to-Win option in medieval warfare

adzilabidin

It's very interesting to learn they actually did reconnaissance missions on a country scale to assess the enemy.
Very modern

thibs

“Gathering intelligence is a key component of their way of war. …understanding the enemies strength, willingness to fight and more.” So, they were the only non-idiots of the time?

The_ZeroLine

Hungary certainly has an underrated history

zegerman

"I will fear the Magyars the day they teach their horses to run on water."
- Duke Pietro Tribuno, probably

Wolfeson

Thank you very much! Great video. I only want to point out one thing. In 899, when the Battle of Brenta occurred, Pannonia (the region West to the Danube) was still under the Bavarian/East Frankish rule. When the Hungarian troops turned back from Italy, the Hungarians who remained home, attacked Pannonia from the East, while the returning Hungarian troops attacked it from the West and South, thus conquering this rich province for Hungary.

szalard

Ironically this same situation happened to the Hungarians except the mongols did it

darthveatay

Man aside from the XIV century the period between the death of Charlemagne and around 1020ish is probably the crappiest for medieval Europe: Magyars, Vikings renewed North African raids and the constant anarchy of the Carolingians.

ramiromen