How Crusaders got wiped out at Nicopolis by the Ottomans ⚔

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[LiaRancid]

Honestly the amount of battles we know of where a king lost because his knights refused to follow orders and charged foolishly into battle borders on comedic

[redclayscholar]

French Knights: "Le Roy Jjjjjenkeenze!"
Sigismund: That's not even how you say it!!!

[Ghost-viqm]

If only those French knights stayed in line. They were so arrogant 🤦🏻‍♂️

[tudorcautisanu]

This battle was lost due to the knights' pride. Not only they charged foolishly into the ottoman trap, they didn't let Mircea the Valachian prince to start the battle (he defeated Bayezid before at Rovine and knew how the turks fought) because this "wouldn't have been honorable for them". I believe this is also the reason why the Valachian flank didn't join to try to save the day at all

[TheAgileEagle.]

As a Turkish, i have great respect to king Stefan, in battle of Ankara even the sultans sons left him but king Stefan didn’t left the battlefield and fought braverly. What a warrior and what a men.

[mcsmash]

the fact that the knights got so far with a frontal charge without any sort of control does beg the question of how well they would have done if they followed orders

[onlyfacts]

The Crusades were such a success story that they went from fighting for Jerusalem to fighting for the Balkans.

[thechairthechair]

Two major fuckups here:


1. The charge of the french without waiting for official orders

2. The betrayal ( or withdrawal idk what's the correct word to use here, but you guys get the point) of the Transylvanian and Wallachian troops

[Nilvolentibusje]

To be honest, Serbians are really loyal warriors. Not only against Hungarian but also against Timurids army, Serbians were brave. Respect from a Turk to the Serbs!

[ehc]

This is what amazes me about strategy.
A single unit managed to wipe out the entire western side and change the tide.

[markeedeep]

The reason for Moravian Serbia siding with the Ottomans was a tactical decision, based on regional dynamics which were not in Serbia's favour. As we can see here from the simulation in display, there was an unreliable hubris on the part of the Hungarian king Sigismund, who thought he alone had the capability of leading a unified crusade against the Turks, and that if he failed (which he undoubtedly did) he could at least succeed in expanding into the northern territory of an already weakened Serbia, following what would have been a certain Turk reprisal for siding against Bayezid, from the south. Prince Stephen's calculations proved correct, Sigismund could not, did not achieve his hoped for objectives. Serbia stayed whole and unharmed, Hungary layed off its own expansionist ambitions giving Stephen the opportunity to gain a free hand in new negotiations for a better conceived, more equitable pan-Christian military alliance against the Ottoman empire. He went on to become one of the founders of the Order of the Dragon, out of which came famed military chieftains like Vlad the Impaler. This is for the benefit of those who are curious the reason why Serbians of all people once found themselves fighting on the side of Turks, just to set the record straight :-)

[arifemrebayrakdar]

Ngl these sipahis hold the enemy charge very well

[rudman]

Just to remind the significance of this time period:

Sigismund, Bayezid, Jan Zizka and Timur lived in the same time period.

Jan Zizka and Timur were never defeated in a battle in their lifetime.

Jan Zizka fought alongside polish-lithuanins as well as Tatar forces from Golden horde against the Teutonic forces at Grunwald. Later, their Khan, Tothtamysh would be defeated by Timur which would end Golden horde as a single powerful entity to the Eastern Europeans and rise of Moscow will begin after that.

Jan Zizka thwarted off Sigismund's crusader forces several times with his hussite peasant militia, most notably at the battle of Vitkov hill.

Timur would defeat Bayezid later, at the famous battle of Ankara, which would start Ottoman civil war.

[nickhaynie]

Later that year, when Sigismund sent out his Christmas cards, the Latvian and Transylvanian guys didn't get any.

[luckbanana]

Me having a stroke understanding this battle

[rezaganjizadeh]

The problem with knights were that they were nobles of noble houses and as it stood under the feudal system, they were very independant from the king esepcially in larger kingdoms like france and the HRE

[JustaGaibroh]

H.M. is just delightful! Voice, graphics, audio... just great!

[aslamaakhter]

The Ottomans again proved their Military Superiority and Disciplined Ranks...
They proved again "Fortune favours the brave"
Ottomans are something to behold

[ultraginge]

It’s amazing to me how many battles would have been won if a giant chunk of the force hadn’t just pissed off for no reason.

[BA-]

Please mark Ottoman and Serbian fought together in lot of battles !!!