Battle of Kosovo Polje, (October 16–17, 1448)
Detail from a miniature, showing an Akıncı-leader, defeating a Hungarian chevalier. Four years earlier the Hungarians were badly defeated by the Ottomans at Varna. Their leader, János Hunyadi, gathered a new army 25,000 strong, including knights from Transylvania, hussar cavalry, and Landsknechte infantry. Hunyadi inflicted major casualties on a much larger Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II. The key…
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