Battle of Nicopolis, 1396 (ALL PARTS) ⚔️ Christians strike back against the Ottomans ⚔️ DOCUMENTARY

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Whenever a careful victory gets thrown away, why is it always you three? -French knights -Pride and overconfidence -Unplanned frontal cavalry charge

"When your team rushes for the kills instead of playing the objective." Sums of the French Knights.

Leave it to the French nobility to try to tank entire armies by themselves. You'd think they would learn that this sort of tactic only works against peasants and levies

King Sigismund: Don’t worry guys! I have a plan! French: Screw your plan, let’s go. French: Get Surrounded King Sigismund: Don’t worry, if we put all of forces together, we can still win! Hungarians and Wallachians: Run Away King Sigmund:*…*

"Go and meet me with more allies and bigger armies, so that the glory and the glory that I will gain will be even greater!" Yıldırım Beyazıt, 1396, Nicopolis.

French Knights: Gets bogged down in their trademark stupid frontal charge Allied Infantry: I miss the part where that's my problem

The French had a Leroy Jenkins moment there, one of many in their history. Their inability to learn from past mistakes is mind boggling. Kaloyan slaughtered them in a similar way two centuries earlier at the battle of Adrianople.

Fun fact, this also happens to be the battle where the famed French Knight John de Carrouges fell in battle at the age of 66. Aka the guy who Matt Damon played in the Last Duel.

If this particular crusade had not acted so treacherously and brutally, they might have managed to pull more of the locals and even the Serbians to their side and achieved total victory but that was not likely in this era of competing short term interests.

Repeatedly throughout history we have seen this same scenario play out when Christian forces unite. The arrogant French knights(young pups) usually listen to no one and lose several battles due to overconfidence. They arrive full of pride, disregard all, and die while costing everyone else everything. Note to self: Don’t invite French aristocrats.

Sigismund and Mircea had the the right idea here. Pity others did not listen to them. Bayezid was wise to get Stefan and the Serbs as allies. But he would not get to enjoy his victory for long. Timur is coming soon.

Everyone : how to lose a battle that is almost for sure supposed to be won? French Knights : HOLD MY ARMOUR

Great thanks for this brief documentary. I am Serbian and have great urge to comment about this historic battle and repercussions. I am speaking as enthusiast and academic historian at the same time. The actual events presented in this video are speed up and not clarified enough. First of all Crusader Army had numerical superiority. Yes ,Vanity among them cost them and they paid ultimate price with their heads. But before this battle there was one before battle of Rovine which took place on 17 May 1395, near present-day Pitești in deep Wallachian territory which Bayezid lost.His Christian Vassals get killed during this battle and Bayezid annexed their lands and properties(quite common in so "honourable" middle age).Marko Mrnjavcevic and Konstantin Dragas died during battle. According to chronicles Constantine of Kostenets :Marko said to Dragas before the battle :"I pray God to help the Christians and that I will be among the first dead in this war." So it was morally difficult to be a vassal in such battle. Stefan Lazarevic had Baptism of Fire in this battle also(18 year of age ) And in early 1394 2 years before Nicopolis battle Bayezid began gathering his Christian vassals at Serres. Among the vassals were Stefan, Emperor Manuel II (1391–1425), his nephew John VII (1390) and his brother Theodore I of Morea (r. 1383–1407), and the Serbian lord Constantine Dragaš. It is believed( Byzantine sources)that Bayezid planned to kill the vassals at the meeting and take their lands. He gave the order to kill them, but it was not done immediately, then he changed his mind, after which some of them went home, while the rest of them completed the conquest of Area of Thessaly and Thessaloniki (12 April). I need to emphasize that a significant role was played by Stephen II and Mircea I because they withdrew with their forces from both wings and the battlefield just before Stefan's attack, leaving Sigismund without support. They had probably dealt with Stefan before the battle. Sigismund managed to escape by fisherman's boat to the Venetian ships in the Danube. It is possible that Stefan left enough time for him to board the boat; Stefan saving Sigismund may be one of the causes of Stefan's later induction 1408 into the "Order of the Dragon". Later he was forced to watch execution of captive french Burgundian Crusaders almost 3000 heads chopped off . Quite horror spectacle as vendetta for executed Muslim prisoners in sieges before Why Stefan Lazarevic support Bayezid as loyal vassal and knight at that time? Simply he choose lesser of the two evils for his country.His father waged wars with Ugars and they plundered North of Serbia after Kosovo clash. So he had deep rooted distrust to Crusaders and actual Northern neighbor. His sister become one of Bayezid's four legal wife's (after she was sent to his harem) He was loyal until Bayezid last moment and crushing defeat from Tamerlan at Angora 1402. Not all Serbian Nobles accept this vassal obligation Vuk Brankovic (Game of thrones expression :"refuse to call ") and consequently lost all his lands and died in Ottoman captivity. Bayezid is reported to have held Prince Stefan in high esteem One of the cronicles from that time recorded Bayesid words: "I think of you as my eldest and favorite son, who stands before me in such honour as you? I am already growing old, and soon will die perhaps in battle or of illness – and then your time will come." Stefan also saved one of his sons during aftermath of Battle of Angora 1402. Stefan Lazarevic later become one of the richest rulers in Medieval Europe mostly because of Silver Mines(Novo Brdo) True Knight. So simply there is no space and time to present all turbulent events from early 15th century (this is just tip of the iceberg) Audience sorry for this long story i simple had inspiration and motive. Keep Going- this history video documentaries makes world better . Vladan

Sigismund: We should work together to ensure we achieve total victory. French Nobles: F1, F3

The most poignant line ever 'we lost the battle on the vanity and pride of those French Knights'

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