Battles of the Ottoman-Hungarian Wars - Battle of Breadfield, Battle of Buda (1686), Battle of Kobolkut, Battle of Kosovo (1448), Battle of Mohacs, Bat (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Battle of Breadfield, Battle of Buda (1686), Battle of Kobolkut, Battle of Kosovo (1448), Battle of Mohacs, Battle of Nicopolis, Battle of Saint Gotthard (1664), Battle of Szeben, Battle of Varna, Battle of Vezekeny, First Battle of Zrinyiujvar, Second Battle of Zrinyiujvar, Siege of Belgrade (1456), Siege of Eger (1552), Siege of Eger (1596), Siege of Guns, Siege of Jajce, Siege of Leva, Siege of Szigetvar, Szolnok Castle. Excerpt: The Battle of Nicopolis took place on 25 September 1396 and resulted in the rout of an allied army of Hungarian, Bulgarian, Wallachian, French, Burgundian, German and assorted troops (assisted by the Venetian navy) at the hands of an Ottoman force, raising of the siege of the Danubian fortress of Nicopolis and leading to the end of the Second Bulgarian Empire. It is often referred to as the Crusade of Nicopolis and was the last large-scale crusade of the Middle Ages. There were many minor crusades in the 14th century, undertaken by individual kings or knights. Most recently there had been a failed crusade against Tunisia in 1390, and there was ongoing warfare in northern Europe along the Baltic coast. After their victory at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, the Ottomans had conquered most of the Balkans, and had reduced the Byzantine Empire to the area immediately surrounding Constantinople, which they later proceeded to besiege (in 1390, 1395, 1397, 1400, 1422 and finally conquering the Byzantine capital in 1453). In 1393 the Bulgarian tsar Ivan Shishman had lost Nicopolis - his temporary capital - to the Ottomans, while his brother, Ivan Stratsimir, still held Vidin but had been reduced to an Ottoman vassal. In the eyes of the Bulgarian boyars, despots and other independent Balkan rulers, this was a great chance to reverse the course of the Ottoman conquest and free the...