Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Today In History: Crusadeish.
On this date in 1396 an attempt at a fresh crusade against the Ottomans fizzled when the Europeans got pasted outside the walls of Nicopolis by a superior Ottoman force. They might have had a chance if the French knights hadn't charged the enemy impetuously (they were apparently taking a break from charging English longbowmen impetuously) and caused the Western plan, such as it was, to disintegrate.
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"The city was well-defended and well-supplied, and the crusaders had brought no siege machines."
Leave it to the Frogs to bring a knife to a gun fight.
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